Evolutionary question answered: Ants more closely related to bees than to most wasps
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Ants and bees are surprisingly more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellow jackets and paper wasps, a team of University of California, Davis, scientists has discovered. The groundbreaking research is available online and will be published Oct. 21 in the print version of the journal Current Biology.