Bees fight back, and win!
Honeybees are developing defenses to outsmart and destroy varroa mites, which can wipe out entire bee colonies.
“Bees are fighting back,” says Greg Hunt, professor of behavioral genetics at Purdue University. “They’re getting rid of the mites themselves. We can select for these traits now, but it’s tedious. If we can identify the genes that influence these traits, we could develop better methods to screen for these genes and speed the process.”
Full story at Futurity.
Photo credit: Tom Campbell/Purdue
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