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Parent-of-origin effects on genome-wide DNA methylation in the Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis) may be confounded by allele-specific methylation.
BMC genomics - 12 Mar 2016
Remnant Emily J, Ashe Alyson, Young Paul E, Buchmann Gabriele, Beekman Madeleine, Allsopp Michael H, Suter Catherine M, Drewell Robert A, Oldroyd Benjamin P
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BACKGROUND: Intersexual genomic conflict sometimes leads to unequal expression of paternal and maternal alleles in offspring, resulting in parent-of-origin effects. In honey bees reciprocal crosses can show strong parent-of-origin effects, supporting theoretical predictions that genomic imprinting occurs in this species. Mechanisms behind imprinting in honey bees are unclear but differential DNA methylation in...
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