>> Honey Bee Genome Project Reveals Possible African Origin of All Honey 
>> Bees

What this suggests to me is that the European bee may have some old African 
genes in the back closet, which could be selected for to breed for the pest 
resistance that scutellata demonstrates.

Randy Oliver 

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