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Genome Buzz: Honeybee DNA raises social questions

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Scientists have officially unveiled the DNA code of the western honeybee, the first genome to be sequenced for an animal with ultrastratified societies.

BEE INSIGHTS. A western honeybee worker tends larvae, one of the social behaviors that makes the insect’s sequenced genome so intriguing to biologists. R. Maleszka

The bees are among the select species in which a few individuals reproduce while others in the colony raise the young and do the chores.