Breeding bees with "clean genes" could prevent colony collapse

Honeybees are increasingly under threat, even recently making it onto the endangered species list in the US for the first time. To help save these vital creatures from extinction, researchers from York University have found a group of genes that appears to be related to how hygienic a particular colony of bees is, and selective breeding for these genes could help fight colony collapse.

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Category: Biology

Tags:

• Bees
• Environment
• Genetics
• Genome
• Insect
• York University

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2EfLWxH