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GENETICS: Honey Bee Genome Illuminates Insect Evolution and Social Behavior
Elizabeth Pennisi
Four years in the making, the 236-million-base genome of the European honey bee, Apis mellifera, proved tough to decipher. But the hard work paid off this week as 170 researchers rolled out their analysis of this fifth insect sequenced to date. See related Reports on pages 642, 645, and 647 and Brevia on page 614. (Read more.)
Charles W. Whitfield, Susanta K. Behura, Stewart H. Berlocher, Andrew G. Clark, J. Spencer Johnston, Walter S. Sheppard, Deborah R. Smith, Andrew V. Suarez, Daniel Weaver, and Neil D. Tsutsui (27 October 2006) Science314 (5799), 642.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1132772] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
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Ying Wang, Mireia Jorda, Peter L. Jones, Ryszard Maleszka, Xu Ling, Hugh M. Robertson, Craig A. Mizzen, Miguel A. Peinado, and Gene E. Robinson (27 October 2006) Science314 (5799), 645.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1135213] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
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[DOI: 10.1126/science.1124128] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
