ArticleEvolution letters2020
Parent of origin gene expression in the bumblebee,
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- Genome Evolution in Social Insects.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Review
- Intragenomic conflict associated with extreme phenotypic plasticity in queen-worker caste determination in honey bees (Apis mellifera).Genome biology · 2025Article
- Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Recent Evolution of a Maternally Acting Sex-Determining Supergene in a Fly with Single-Sex Broods.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
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- How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Parent-of-origin effects, allele-specific expression, genomic imprinting and paternal manipulation in social insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Males That Silence Their Father's Genes: Genomic Imprinting of a Complete Haploid Genome.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Lack of parent-of-origin effects in Nasonia jewel wasp: A replication and extension study.PloS one · 2021Article
- Bumblebee Workers Show Differences in Allele-Specific DNA Methylation and Allele-Specific Expression.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
Genomic imprinting is the differential expression alleles in diploid individuals, with the expression being dependent on the sex of the parent from which it was inherited. Haig's kinship theory hypothesizes that genomic imprinting is due to an evolutionary conflict of interest between alleles from the mother and father. In social insects, it has been suggested that genomic imprinting should be widespread. One recent study identified parent-of-origin expression in honey bees and found evidence supporting the kinship theory. However, little is known about genomic imprinting in insects and multiple theoretical predictions must be tested to avoid single-study confirmation bias. We, therefore, tested for parent-of-origin expression in a primitively eusocial bee. We found equal numbers of maternally and paternally biased expressed genes. The most highly biased genes were maternally expressed, offering support for the kinship theory. We also found low conservation of potentially imprinted genes with the honey bee, suggesting rapid evolution of genomic imprinting in Hymenoptera.
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