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Subject:	Study on aging bees and learning
From:	Bill T <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:12:58 -0400
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/aga-amm062909.php

"The honey bee is a great model", explains Dr. Scheiner, "because we can
learn a lot about social organisation from it and because it allows us to
revert individuals into a 'younger' stage. If we remove all of the nurse
bees of a colony, some of the foragers will revert to nursing behaviour and
their brains become 'young' again. We thus hope to study the mechanisms
responsible for age-dependent effects, like oxidative damage, and also to
discover new ways to act against these aging processes."

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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