(Source: University of London) Tuesday 11 December 2012 Researchers from the UK and Australia have uncovered a new element of the honeybee's genetic makeup, which may help to explain why bees are so sensitive to environmental changes. The findings could offer an insight into problems like Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious cause of mass bee deaths globally. Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London, the University of Sheffield, and the Australian National University, have found that honeybees have a 'histone code' - a series of marks on the histone proteins around which their DNA is wrapped in order to fit into the nucleus of a cell. This code is known to...
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