Nurse Bees Tending to Brood in the Hive (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Nurse Bees Tending to Brood in the Hive

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Recent work at Washington University in St. Louis suggests that the division of labor in honeybee colonies is controlled by small segments of noncoding RNA called micro-RNAs, or miRNAs.

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Travis Mohrman

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