Cape Bees 3 (IMAGE)

Uppsala University

Cape Bees 3

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An isolated population of honeybees, the Cape bees, living in South Africa has evolved a strategy to reproduce without males. A research team from Uppsala University has sequenced the entire genomes of a sample of Cape bees and compared them with other populations of honeybees to find out the genetic mechanisms behind their asexual reproduction.

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Mike Allsopp

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May only be published in connection to reports about the study by Andreas Wallberg, Christian W. Pirk, Mike H. Allsopp and Matthew T. Webster.

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