There is great interest in exploring epigenetic modifications as drivers of adaptive
organismal responses to environmental change. Extending this hypothesis to populations …

Epigenetics can play a role in interactions between chemicals and exposed species,
between species and abiotic ecosystem components or between species of the same or …

Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the cockroaches, 50
million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants, appeared. Here, we …

Myriapods (eg, centipedes and millipedes) display a simple homonomous body plan relative
to other arthropods. All members of the class are terrestrial, but they attained terrestriality …

DNA methylation and histone H1 mediate transcriptional silencing of genes and
transposable elements, but how they interact is unclear. In plants and animals with mosaic …

DNA methylation of transcription units (gene bodies) occurs in the genomes of many animal
and plant species. Phylogenetic persistence of gene body methylation implies biological …

Background Gene bodies are the most evolutionarily conserved targets of DNA methylation
in eukaryotes. However, the regulatory functions of gene body DNA methylation remain …

The parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis is an emerging genetic model for functional
analysis of DNA methylation. Here, we characterize genome-wide methylation at a base-pair …

It has been experimentally shown that DNA methylation is involved in the regulation of gene
expression and the silencing of transposable element activity in eukaryotes. The variable …

Populations of honey bees are declining throughout the world, with US beekeepers losing
30% of their colonies each winter. Though multiple factors are driving these colony losses, it …