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From Ron Miksa's Bad Beekeeping Blog:
> In a nutshell, University of Illinois researchers have found that
> pollen-based food called bee bread, given to larvae that become worker
> bees, contains an acid that works as aDNA methylation
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation>agent. Methylation of
> DNA was discovered just a few years ago. It can shut off the way DNA
> makes proteins, changing the way living things look, grow, and
> function. Scientists think it controlsepigenetics
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics>(the way the environment
> affects gene expression). This is nearly as important as DNA itself in
> changing the future of a creature. Environment affects DNA methylation
> which can turn off the way some genes work. So this new theory
> suggests that an important component of the environment – diet – turns
> off some genes in the female, suppressing their expression, resulting
> in worker bees.
Anyone know anything about this?
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