Lots of Papers Coming out on the Honeybee Genome

By evolgen on October 26, 2006.

There will be a ton of papers coming out over the next couple of weeks on the recently sequenced honeybee (Apis mellifera) genome. Carl Zimmer has a review of some of the topics that will be addressed in the upcoming publications. The NHGRI also has some information.

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