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Re: SUPERSEDURE OF QUEENS
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Peter Armitage <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 9 Sep 2020 05:44:16 -0400
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At serious risk of side-tracking this thread once again, I'll direct attention to this recent news release out of the University of British Columbia and North Carolina State University.

"Long live the queen: UBC scientists find clues to queen bee failure."

"In recent research outlined in BMC Genomics, University of British Columbia and North Carolina State University researchers identified specific proteins that are activated in queen bees under different stressful conditions: extreme heat, extreme cold, and pesticide exposure—conditions that can affect the viability of the sperm stored in the honey bee queen’s body. If the queen does not have enough live sperm to produce enough fertilized eggs to maintain its population of worker bees, the colony will eventually die out."

https://news.ubc.ca/2020/09/08/long-live-the-queen-ubc-scientists-find-clues-to-queen-bee-failure/

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