>
> >Quite a few on the list were around at the time and when the discovery
> was made, wondered, what took so long.


Many things that appear obvious in retrospect by armchair quarterbacks, may
not have been so obvious until someone pointed out the differences.

Case in point--the differences between Nosema ceranae and N. apis are
obvious under a scope.  Yet no one noticed that N ceranae had displaced N
apis until molecular geneticist Dr. Joe DeRisi pointed out the fact.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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