søndag, november 05, 2006
Study: All the World's Honeybees Come From Africa
Læs hele artiklen hos Fox News:
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By looking at variations in genetic markers from 341 bees, researchers found that the common honey bee, Apis mellifera, originated in Africa and migrated to Europe at least twice.
"The migrations resulted in two European populations that are geographically close, but genetically quite different," said lead study author Charles Whitfield of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "In fact, the two European populations are more related to honeybees in Africa than to each other."
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