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Science 27 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5799, p. 561
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5799.561i
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Sequencing of the genome of the Western honey bee Apis mellifera has recently been completed and has launched a variety of studies aimed at elucidating aspects of honey bee biology and evolution (see the news story by Pennisi). Whitfield et al. (p. 642), reconstructed the relationships among native Old World honey bees (Africa, Asia, and Europe), and present a fine-scale population genetic analysis of introduced New World bees (North and South America). Wang et al. (p. 645) identified DNA methyltransferase orthologs in the honey bee and demonstrated their catalytic activity. By combining genomic, proteomic, and bioinformatic approaches, Hummon et al. (p. 647) identified nearly 200 candidate neuropeptides in the honey bee genome, which provides new tools for understanding the neurobiology of this complex social organism. In Brevia, Poiner and Danforth (p. 614) describe a 100-million-year-old fossil bee, preserved in amber, along with traces of pollen associated with their role in angiosperm pollination.




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