Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Queen pheromones modulate DNA methyltransferase activity in bee and ant workers.

Biology letters - 1 Jan 2016

Holman Luke, Trontti Kalevi, Helanterä Heikki

Abstract excerpt

DNA methylation is emerging as an important regulator of polyphenism in the social insects. Research has concentrated on differences in methylation between queens and workers, though we hypothesized that methylation is involved in mediating other flexible phenotypes, including pheromone-dependent changes in worker behaviour and physiology. Here, we find that exposure to queen pheromone affects the expression of...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Ants
Share to Bees
Share to DNA Methylation

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy Delete account & data About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to DNA Modification Methylases

Share to Gene Expression Regulation

Share to Phenotype

Share to Pheromones

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 26814223
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.1038
PMCID: PMC4785935

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-08.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Queen pheromones modulate DNA methyltransferase activity in bee and ant workers.PMID 26814223Read ↗

The role of chromatin and epigenetics in the polyphenisms of ant castes.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Evolution of DNA Methylation across Insects.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genome-Wide Characterization of DNA Methylation in an Invasive Lepidopteran Pest, the Cotton Bollworm Helicoverpa armigera.Semantic proximity Read ↗

H3K4me1 Modification Functions in Caste Differentiation in Honey Bees.Semantic proximity Read ↗

DNA methylation dynamics, metabolic fluxes, gene splicing, and alternative phenotypes in honey bees.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The role of methylation of DNA in environmental adaptation.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Developmental epigenetic programming of caste-specific differences in social insects: an impact on longevity.Semantic proximity Read ↗

DNA methylation in cockroaches is essential in early embryo development and reduces gene expression noiseSemantic proximity Read ↗

Phenotypically distinct female castes in honey bees are defined by alternative chromatin states during larval development.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Differentially methylated obligatory epialleles modulate context-dependent LAM gene expression in the honeybee Apis mellifera.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Reversible switching between epigenetic states in honeybee behavioral subcastes.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Bumblebee Workers Show Differences in Allele-Specific DNA Methylation and Allele-Specific Expression.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.