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| Cardoso-Júnior,Carlos A.M.; Fujimura,Patrícia Tieme; Santos-Júnior,Célio Dias; Borges,Naiara Araújo; Ueira-Vieira,Carlos; Hartfelder,Klaus; Goulart,Luiz Ricardo; Bonetti,Ana Maria. |
| Abstract Stingless bees of the genus Melipona, have long been considered an enigmatic case among social insects for their mode of caste determination, where in addition to larval food type and quantity, the genotype also has a saying, as proposed over 50 years ago by Warwick E. Kerr. Several attempts have since tried to test his Mendelian two-loci/two-alleles segregation hypothesis, but only recently a single gene crucial for sex determination in bees was evidenced to be sex-specifically spliced and also caste-specifically expressed in a Melipona species. Since alternative splicing is frequently associated with epigenetic marks, and the epigenetic status plays a major role in setting the caste phenotype in the honey bee, we investigated here epigenetic... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: DNA methylation; Histone modification; Caste development; Social bees; Genetic caste determination. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572017000100061 |
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