Next Monday's post is already drafted and looking pretty good. At least I'm excited about it. See you then. Meanwhile, this week's big science news is the series of articles about the honeybee genome appearing in the current Nature. There is not much in them of direct interest to this blog, but I did get a kick out of this passage in a press release from the University of Arizona:
"An early expectation in the sequencing project was that we would find many new genes responsible for social behavior in the honeybee genome," [Gro] Amdam said. "However, we didn't find much diversification of such social genes and, in fact, the number of honeybee genes overall was smaller than in the genome of the fly, which has a solitary lifestyle."
The genetics discoveries keep sending thinkers back to their notepads.
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