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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Gene Robinson

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Gene Robinson and colleagues discovered that honey bee larvae experience a temporary loss of odor detection. The reduced expression of a gene essential to the sense of smell is likely a result of the bees’ social evolution, the researchers say. 

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