Paternal knockdown of tRNA (cytosine‐5‐)‐methyltransferase ( Dnmt2 ) increases offspring susceptibility to infection in red flour beetles

Evidence of Adaptive Evolution in Wolbachia-Regulated Gene DNMT2 and Its Role in the Dipteran Immune Response and Pathogen Blocking

(2021) Tamanash Bhattacharya et al.   Viruses-Basel

The emerging role of epigenetic mechanisms in insect defense against pathogens

(2021) Krishnendu Mukherjee et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Evidence For Long-Lasting Transgenerational Antiviral Immunity in Insects

(2020) Juan A. Mondotte et al.   Cell Reports

Transgenerational Developmental Effects of Immune Priming in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium castaneum

(2019) Nora K.E. Schulz et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Sperm RNA code programmes the metabolic health of offspring

(2019) Yunfang Zhang et al.   Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Trans-generational Immune Priming in Invertebrates: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects

(2019) Guillaume Tetreau et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Recent advances in vertebrate and invertebrate transgenerational immunity in the light of ecology and evolution

(2018) Olivia Roth et al.   HEREDITY

Dnmt2 mediates intergenerational transmission of paternally acquired metabolic disorders through sperm small non-coding RNAs

(2018) Yunfang Zhang et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mutations in Cytosine-5 tRNA Methyltransferases Impact Mobile Element Expression and Genome Stability at Specific DNA Repeats

(2018) Bianca Genenncher et al.   Cell Reports

Drosophila DNA/RNA methyltransferase contributes to robust host defense in ageing animals by regulating sphingolipid metabolism

(2018) Varada Abhyankar et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Dnmt1 has an essential function despite the absence of CpG DNA methylation in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

(2018) Nora K. E. Schulz et al.   Scientific Reports

The within-host dynamics of infection in trans-generationally primed flour beetles

(2017) Ann T. Tate et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The DNA methyltransferase family: a versatile toolkit for epigenetic regulation

(2017) Frank Lyko   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Wolbachia elevates host methyltransferase expression to block an RNA virus early during infection

(2017) Tamanash Bhattacharya et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Methylation on RNA: A Potential Mechanism Related to Immune Priming within But Not across Generations

(2017) Cynthia Castro-Vargas et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Evolution of DNA Methylation across Insects

(2016) Adam J. Bewick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mechanism and biological role of Dnmt2 in Nucleic Acid Methylation

(2016) Albert Jeltsch et al.   RNA Biology

Immune memory in invertebrates

(2016) Barbara Milutinović et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Divergent immune priming responses across flour beetle life stages and populations

(2016) Imroze Khan et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Reviving the RNA World: An Insight into the Appearance of RNA Methyltransferases

(2016) Ajay K. Rana et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1: testing for a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction

(2016) Robert Peuß et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Infection of Tribolium castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: Quantification of Bacterial Replication within Cadavers, Transmission via Cannibalism, and Inhibition of Spore Germination

(2015) Barbara Milutinović et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Epigenetics and locust life phase transitions

(2015) U. R. Ernst et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Sperm tsRNAs contribute to intergenerational inheritance of an acquired metabolic disorder

(2015) Q. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Biogenesis and function of tRNA fragments during sperm maturation and fertilization in mammals

(2015) U. Sharma et al.   SCIENCE

The iBeetle large-scale RNAi screen reveals gene functions for insect development and physiology

(2015) Christian Schmitt-Engel et al.   Nature Communications

Transfer of Immunity from Mother to Offspring Is Mediated via Egg-Yolk Protein Vitellogenin

(2015) Heli Salmela et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Environmentally Selected Aphid Variants in Clonality Context Display Differential Patterns of Methylation in the Genome

(2015) Claude Pasquier et al.   PLoS One

Epigenetics, plasticity, and evolution: How do we link epigenetic change to phenotype?

(2014) Elizabeth J. Duncan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Different effects of paternal trans-generational immune priming on survival and immunity in step and genetic offspring

(2014) H. Eggert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The maternal transfer of bacteria can mediate trans-generational immune priming in insects

(2014) Dalial Freitak et al.   Virulence

Functional genetics for all: engineered nucleases, CRISPR and the gene editing revolution

(2014) Anna F Gilles et al.   EvoDevo

Dnmt2 methyltransferases and immunity: An ancient overlooked connection between nucleotide modification and host defense?

(2013) Zeljko Durdevic et al.   BIOESSAYS

Efficient RNA virus control in Drosophila requires the RNA methyltransferase Dnmt2

(2013) Zeljko Durdevic et al.   EMBO REPORTS

The Red Flour Beetle as a Model for Bacterial Oral Infections

(2013) Barbara Milutinović et al.   PLoS One

Dnmt2-dependent methylomes lack defined DNA methylation patterns

(2013) G. Raddatz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The RNA Methyltransferase Dnmt2 Is Required for Efficient Dicer-2-Dependent siRNA Pathway Activity in Drosophila

(2013) Zeljko Durdevic et al.   Cell Reports

RNA–Mediated Epigenetic Heredity Requires the Cytosine Methyltransferase Dnmt2

(2013) Jafar Kiani et al.   PLoS Genetics

A novel class of tRNA-derived small RNAs extremely enriched in mature mouse sperm

(2012) Hongying Peng et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Characterization of genome methylation patterns in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria

(2012) C. Falckenhayn et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

RNA methylation by Dnmt2 protects transfer RNAs against stress-induced cleavage

(2010) M. Schaefer et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Eukaryotic DNA Methylation

(2010) A. Zemach et al.   SCIENCE

Solving the Dnmt2 enigma

(2009) Matthias Schaefer et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Phagocytosis mediates specificity in the immune defence of an invertebrate, the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda)

(2009) Olivia Roth et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle,Tribolium castaneum

(2009) Olivia Roth et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Retrotransposon silencing and telomere integrity in somatic cells of Drosophila depends on the cytosine-5 methyltransferase DNMT2

(2009) Sameer Phalke et al.   NATURE GENETICS

DNA methylation is widespread and associated with differential gene expression in castes of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

(2009) N. Elango et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Stephen Richards et al.   NATURE

Human DNMT2 methylates tRNAAsp molecules using a DNA methyltransferase-like catalytic mechanism

(2008) T. P. Jurkowski et al.   RNA

Nutritional Control of Reproductive Status in Honeybees via DNA Methylation

(2008) R. Kucharski et al.   SCIENCE