From worker to queen at the drop of a gene

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 08:30 in Biology & Nature

Biologists from the University of Leicester have discovered that one of nature's most important pollinators - the buff-tailed bumblebee – either ascends to the status of queen or remains a lowly worker bee based on which genes are 'turned on' during its lifespan.

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