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The role of chromatin and epigenetics in the polyphenisms of ant castes.

Briefings in functional genomics - 1 May 2014

Bonasio Roberto

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Ants and other social insects offer a natural experimental system to investigate the molecular bases of epigenetic processes that influence the whole organism. Epigenetics is defined as the inheritance of biological variation independent of changes in the DNA sequence. As such, epigenetic research focuses on the mechanisms by which multiple phenotypes arise from a single genome. In social insects, whole...

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PMID: 24462993
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elt056

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