Highlights--Does Methylation Make the Parent? A First Dive into the Genetics of Social Beetles

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Danielle Venton. Genome Biol Evol. 2015.

. 2015 Dec 26;7(12):3414-5.

doi: 10.1093/gbe/evv223.

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1. Cunningham, et al. (2015). The Genome and Methylome of a Beetle with Complex Social Behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Genome Biol Evol. 7:3383–3396