Monday, September 17, 2012

How bees decide what they want to be










Researchers have reported what is believed to be the first evidence that complex, reversible behavioural patterns in bees, and presumably other animals, are linked to reversible chemical tags on genes.






According to the scientists, what is most significant about the new study is that for the first time DNA methylation "tagging" has been linked to something at the behavioural level of a whole organism.






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journal reference:   Nature Neuroscience  >>






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