Bees reveal nature-nuture secrets: Extensive molecular differences in brains of workers and queen
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 21:21
in Biology & Nature
The nature-nurture debate is a "giant step" closer to being resolved after scientists studying bees documented how environmental inputs can modify our genetic hardware. The researchers uncovered extensive molecular differences in the brains of worker bees and queen bees which develop along very different paths when put on different diets.