2016
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw264
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Evolution of DNA Methylation across Insects

Abstract: DNA methylation contributes to gene and transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes, and therefore has been hypothesized to facilitate the evolution of plastic traits such as sociality in insects. However, DNA methylation is sparsely studied in insects. Therefore, we documented patterns of DNA methylation across a wide diversity of insects. We predicted that underlying enzymatic machinery is concordant with patterns of DNA methylation. Finally, given the suggestion that DNA methylation facilitated social evolutio… Show more

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“…as recently shown 38,44 . In fact, DNA methylation appears to be important for the regulation of housekeeping genes because predicted methylated genes are related to general biological processes (further supported by lower CpG o/e within 1-to-1 orthologues than in non-conserved genes) 45 , while caste-specific genes are 'released' from this type of gene regulation.…”
Section: Nature Ecology and Evolutionmentioning
confidence: 65%
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“…as recently shown 38,44 . In fact, DNA methylation appears to be important for the regulation of housekeeping genes because predicted methylated genes are related to general biological processes (further supported by lower CpG o/e within 1-to-1 orthologues than in non-conserved genes) 45 , while caste-specific genes are 'released' from this type of gene regulation.…”
Section: Nature Ecology and Evolutionmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…4a). This is revealed by CpG depletion patterns (CpG o/e , observed versus expected number of CpGs), a reliable predictor of DNA methylation 38,39 , correlating more strongly between the termites than among any of the other analysed hemimetabolous insects (Fig. 4).…”
Section: Changes In Gene Regulation In Termitesmentioning
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“…DNA methylation has been poorly studied in insects outside of Holometabola and only been superficially described in Hemiptera as part of a broad scale comparative analysis (Bewick et al, ). We therefore first sought to characterise genome‐wide patterns of methylation in M. persicae before going on to investigate sex‐specific changes in DNA methylation levels between asexual female and male morphs.…”
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“…However, replicated experimental designs have recently shown random between‐sample variation (low repeatability) and no evidence of statistically significant differences in CpG methylation between social insect castes in unreplicated studies (Libbrecht et al, ). Furthermore, DNA methylation has a patchy distribution across the insect phylogeny, having been lost in many species, and appears to be dispensable for the evolution of sociality and the eusocial division of labour (Bewick et al, ). Besides Hymenoptera, termites (epifamily Termitoidae) have independently evolved sociality in insects, and they have also been studied to investigate patterns of DNA methylation among castes and between the sexes (Glastad et al, ).…”
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