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The fire ant genome and honeybee personalities, plus more in the week’s biology news
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Genomes of fire ant, Argentine ant
Nourishing hopes for the fight against world domination (by stinging ants), international research teams have unveiled genetic blueprints for the notoriously invasive fire ant and Argentine ant. The genome for a species with milder manners, the red harvester ant, appears with the other two online the week of January 31 in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
Nourishing hopes for the fight against world domination (by stinging ants), international research teams have unveiled genetic blueprints for the notoriously invasive fire ant and Argentine ant. The genome for a species with milder manners, the red harvester ant, appears with the other two online the week of January 31 in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.