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Annual Review of Entomology

Volume 64, 2019

Epigenetics in Insects: Genome Regulation and the Generation of Phenotypic Diversity

Abstract

Epigenetic inheritance is fundamentally important to cellular differentiation and developmental plasticity. In this review, we provide an introduction to the field of molecular epigenetics in insects. Epigenetic information is passed across cell divisions through the methylation of DNA, the modification of histone proteins, and the activity of noncoding RNAs. Much of our knowledge of insect epigenetics has been gleaned from a few model species. However, more studies of epigenetic information in traditionally nonmodel taxa will help advance our understanding of the developmental and evolutionary significance of epigenetic inheritance in insects. To this end, we also provide a brief overview of techniques for profiling and perturbing individual facets of the epigenome. Doing so in diverse cellular, developmental, and taxonomic contexts will collectively help shed new light on how genome regulation results in the generation of diversity in insect form and function.

Keyword(s): chromatin, DNA methylation, gene expression, histone modifications, noncoding RNA
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Epigenetics in Insects: Genome Regulation and the Generation of Phenotypic Diversity
Annual Review of Entomology 64, 185 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-011118-111914
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