Paper wasps and honey bees share a genetic toolkit

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 09:00 in Mathematics & Economics

They are both nest-building social insects, but paper wasps and honey bees organise their colonies in very different ways. In a new study, researchers report that despite their differences, these insects rely on the same network of genes to guide their social behaviour...

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