TY - JOUR T1 - Monoallelic methylation and allele specific expression in a social insect JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/022657 SP - 022657 AU - Kate D. Lee AU - Zoƫ N. Lonsdale AU - Maria Kyriakidou AU - Despina Nathanael AU - Harindra E. Amarasinghe AU - Eamonn B. Mallon Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/07/15/022657.abstract N2 - Social insects are emerging models for epigenetics. Here we examine the link between monoallelic methylation and monoallelic expression in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris using whole methylome and transcriptome analysis. We found nineteen genes displaying monoallelic methylation and expression. They were enriched for functions to do with social organisation in the social insects. These are the biological processes predicted to involve imprinting by evolutionary theory. ER -