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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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- 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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- 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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10-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
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