http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120916160845.htm

According to Andy Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H., Gilman scholar, professor of
> molecular medicine and director of the Center for Epigenetics at Hopkins'
> Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, the addition of DNA methylation to
> genes has long been shown to play an important role in regulating gene
> activity in changing biological systems, like fate determination in stem
> cells or the creation of cancer cells. Curious about how epigenetics might
> contribute to behavior, he and his team studied a tried-and-true model of
> animal behavior: bees.
>

Very interesting article that goes well beyond bee behavior.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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