PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kate D. Lee
AU  - Zoë N. Lonsdale
AU  - Maria Kyriakidou
AU  - Despina Nathanael
AU  - Harindra E. Amarasinghe
AU  - Eamonn B. Mallon
TI  - Monoallelic methylation and allele specific expression in a social insect
AID  - 10.1101/022657
DP  - 2015 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 022657
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/07/15/022657.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/07/15/022657.full
AB  - 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.