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 - Harindra E. Amarasinghe AU - Despina Nathanael AU - Eamonn B. Mallon Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/08/04/022657.abstract N2 - Social insects are emerging models for epigenetics. Here we examine a link between monoallelic methylation and monoallelic expression in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris using whole methy-lome and transcriptome analysis. In mammals and flowering plants, genomic imprinting (parent of origin allele specific expression) often involves monoallelic expression and methylation. We found nineteen genes displaying monoallelic methylation and expression. They were enriched for functions to do with social organisation in the social insects. Evolutionary theory predicts that social organisation in the hymenoptera invovles genomic imprinting. ER -