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Secrets revealed in sequencing of honey bee genome
10-25-2006 · EurekAlert!What do fruit flies, mosquitoes, silk moths and honey bees have in common? First, they are all insects. Second, they have all had their genomes sequenced, a feat that will make it much easier to discern both similarities and differences.
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- There's much more to bees than honey
10-25-2006 · EurekAlert!
The findings from the Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Project are published today in "Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera," in Nature.
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- Bee genome information housed at Texas A&M University
10-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
About three years ago, Dr. Christine Elsik -- an expert in genomics in the department of animal science at Texas A&M University -- offered to house the data from the honey bee genome sequencing project at Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center. Baylor researchers finished sequencing the genome in March, but the work continues. Elsik's computers house the data from the sequence of the 16 chromosomes and 265 million nucleotides of the honey bee, she said.
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- Researchers decode genetics of rare photosynthetic bacterium
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A bacterium that harvests far-red light by making a rare form of chlorophyll (chlorophyll d) has revealed its genetic secrets, according to a team of researchers who recently sequenced the bacteria's genome. The researchers, from Arizona State University and Washington University, St. Louis, report their findings in the current online edition (Feb. 4) of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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- Honey bee genome holds clues to social behavior
10-23-2006 · EurekAlert!
By studying the humble honey bee, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have come a step closer to understanding the molecular basis of social behavior in humans.
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- Research upsetting some notions about honey bees
12-11-2006 · EurekAlert!
Genetic research, based on information from the recently released honey bee genome, has toppled some long-held beliefs about the honey bee that colonized Europe and the U.S. According to research published recently in Science, an international professional journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the four most common subspecies of honey bee originated in Africa and entered Europe in two separate migrations.
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- A prickly subject: The sea urchin genome is sequenced
11-09-2006 · EurekAlert!
The sea urchin revealed a number of surprising details about its genetic makeup and its similarity to humans in a paper announcing the completed sequencing of the organism's genome in today's issue of Science. Maine scientists will use the genome to further research in human development and disease. The genome will also provide important biological data that may assist marine biologists in re-establishing the New England urchin population.
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- Sweet yet sophisticated: Honey bee genome lends insight into sociality, sensation and sex
10-25-2006 · EurekAlert!
Genome Research has devoted this month's issue to studies that provide insight into the biology of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). This tip sheet highlights some of the studies that appear in the issue.
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- Professor analyzes nuclear receptors in bee genome
10-25-2006 · EurekAlert!
Susan Fahrbach, a Wake Forest University biologist, is among the more than 170 researchers who helped decode the honey bee genome. She contributed to the article on the bee genome sequence that appears in the October 26 issue of Nature. Her piece of the puzzle -- analyzing the nuclear hormone receptors found in the bee genome -- also appears in the current issue of Insect Molecular Biology.
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- Massive project reveals shortcomings of modern genome analysis
11-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
The sequencing and comparison of 12 fruit fly genomes -- the result of a massive collaboration of hundreds of scientists from more than 100 institutions in 16 countries -- has thrust forward researchers' understanding of fruit flies, a popular animal model in science. But even human genome biologists may want to take note: The project also has revealed considerable flaws in the way they identify genes.
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- Looking to a new era in bee research
10-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
A respected UK entomology journal, Insect Molecular Biology, today publishes its Honey Bee Genome Special Issue, timed to coincide with the release of the long-awaited Honey Bee Genome Sequence, published earlier this week in Nature magazine.
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