Brendan G. Hunt
University of Georgia
44 Papers
61 Citations
Brendan G. Hunt is an academic researcher from University of Georgia. The author has contributed to research in topics: DNA methylation & Gene. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 41 publications. Previous affiliations of Brendan G. Hunt include Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Papers
Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living
Karen M. Kapheim,Karen M. Kapheim,Hailin Pan,Cai Li,Steven L. Salzberg,Steven L. Salzberg,Daniela Puiu,Tanja Magoc,Hugh M. Robertson,Matthew E. Hudson,Aarti Venkat,Aarti Venkat,Brielle J. Fischman,Brielle J. Fischman,Alvaro G. Hernandez,Mark Yandell,Daniel D. Ence,Carson Holt,George D. Yocum,William P. Kemp,Jordi Bosch,Robert M. Waterhouse,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Eckart Stolle,Eckart Stolle,F. Bernhard Kraus,Sophie Helbing,Robin F. A. Moritz,Karl M. Glastad,Brendan G. Hunt,Michael A. D. Goodisman,Frank Hauser,Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen,Daniel Guariz Pinheiro,Daniel Guariz Pinheiro,Francis M. F. Nunes,Michelle P.M. Soares,E. D. Tanaka,Zilá Luz Paulino Simões,Klaus Hartfelder,Jay D. Evans,Seth M. Barribeau,Reed M. Johnson,Jonathan Massey,Jonathan Massey,Bruce R. Southey,Martin Hasselmann,Daniel Hamacher,Matthias Biewer,Clement F. Kent,Clement F. Kent,Amro Zayed,Charles Blatti,Saurabh Sinha,J. Spencer Johnston,Shawn J. Hanrahan,Sarah D. Kocher,Jun Wang,Gene E. Robinson,Guojie Zhang +60 more
TL;DR: There is no single road map to eusociality; independent evolutionary transitions in sociality have independent genetic underpinnings and these transitions do have similar general features, including an increase in constrained protein evolution accompanied by increases in the potential for gene regulation and decreases in diversity and abundance of transposable elements.
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Molecular traces of alternative social organization in a termite genome
Nicolas Terrapon,Nicolas Terrapon,Cai Li,Hugh M. Robertson,Lu Ji,Xuehong Meng,Warren Booth,Warren Booth,Zhensheng Chen,Christopher P. Childers,Karl M. Glastad,Kaustubh Gokhale,Johannes Gowin,Johannes Gowin,Wulfila Gronenberg,Russell A. Hermansen,Haofu Hu,Brendan G. Hunt,Ann Kathrin Huylmans,Ann Kathrin Huylmans,Sayed M.S. Khalil,Robert D. Mitchell,Monica Munoz-Torres,Julie A. Mustard,Hailin Pan,Justin T. Reese,Michael E. Scharf,Fengming Sun,Heiko Vogel,Jin Xiao,Wei Yang,Zhikai Yang,Zuoquan Yang,Jiajian Zhou,Jiwei Zhu,Colin S. Brent,Christine G. Elsik,Michael A. D. Goodisman,David A. Liberles,R. Michael Roe,Edward L. Vargo,Andreas Vilcinskas,Jun Wang,Erich Bornberg-Bauer,Judith Korb,Guojie Zhang,Juergen Liebig +46 more
TL;DR: The genome and stage-specific transcriptomes of the dampwood termite Zootermopsis nevadensis (Blattodea) are sequence and similarities in the number and expression of genes related to caste determination mechanisms support a hypothesized epigenetic regulation of caste differentiation.
DNA methylation is widespread and associated with differential gene expression in castes of the honeybee, Apis mellifera.
TL;DR: The results highlight the potential significance of epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation, in developmental processes in social insects and provide fertile ground for future studies of phenotypic plasticity and genomic imprinting.
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Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality
Daniel F. Simola,Lothar Wissler,Greg Donahue,Robert M. Waterhouse,Martin Helmkampf,Julien Roux,Sanne Nygaard,Karl M. Glastad,Darren E. Hagen,Lumi Viljakainen,Justin T. Reese,Brendan G. Hunt,Dan Graur,Eran Elhaik,Evgenia V. Kriventseva,Jiayu Wen,Brian J. Parker,Elizabeth Cash,Eyal Privman,Christopher P. Childers,Monica Munoz-Torres,Jacobus J. Boomsma,Erich Bornberg-Bauer,Cameron R. Currie,Christine G. Elsik,Garret Suen,Michael A. D. Goodisman,Laurent Keller,Jürgen Liebig,Alan Rawls,Danny Reinberg,Christopher D. Smith,Chris Smith,Neil D. Tsutsui,Yannick Wurm,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Shelley L. Berger,Jürgen Gadau +37 more
TL;DR: While the "socio-genomes" of ants and the honeybee are broadly characterized by a pervasive pattern of divergence in gene composition and regulation, they preserve lineage-specific regulatory features linked to eusociality, it is proposed that changes in gene regulation played a key role in the origins of insect eussociality.
DNA methylation in insects: on the brink of the epigenomic era
TL;DR: It is suggested that insects are particularly amenable to advancing the understanding of the biological functions of DNA methylation, because insects are evolutionarily diverse, display several lineage‐specific losses ofDNA methylation and possess tractable patterns of DNAmethylation in moderately sized genomes.