Mireia Jordà

TL;DR: The genome sequence of the honeybee Apis mellifera is reported, suggesting a novel African origin for the species A. melliferA and insights into whether Africanized bees spread throughout the New World via hybridization or displacement.

TL;DR: Using the recently sequenced honey bee genome, a bioinformatic, molecular, and biochemical characterization of a functional DNA methylation system in an insect is presented and catalytically active orthologs of the vertebrate DNA methyltransferases Dnmt1 and DNmt3a and b are reported.

TL;DR: The evidence available for the role epigenetics on host- Pathogen interactions, and the utility and versatility of the epigenetic technologies available that can be cross-applied to host-pathogen studies are reviewed are reviewed.

TL;DR: There is an inverse relationship in Alu families with respect to their age and methylation status: the youngest elements exhibit the highest prevalence of the SmaI site but the lower rates of unmethylation, consistent with a stronger silencing pressure on the youngest repetitive elements, which are closer to genes.

TL;DR: It was found that follicular tumors had higher levels of methylation, which seemed to accumulate in a progressive manner along the tumorigenic process from adenomas to carcinomas, and etoposide‐induced 2.4 and Wilms tumor 1 as novel prognostic markers related to recurrence‐free survival.