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  • 63058252219563663152412566903015762062163620PublicAssets/6756Researchers doing behavioral experiments with honeybees sometimes use paint or enamel to give individual bees distinguishing marks. The elaborate social structure and impressive learning and navigation abilities of bees make them good models for behavioral and neurobiological research. Since the sequencing of the honeybee genome, published in 2006, bees have been used increasingly for research into the molecular basis for social interaction and other complex behaviors.Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Claudia Lutz and Charley Nye, Robinson Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Photograph

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    Honeybees marked with paint

    Researchers doing behavioral experiments with honeybees sometimes use paint or enamel to give individual bees distinguishing marks. The elaborate social structure and impressive learning and navigation abilities of bees make them good models for behavioral and neurobiological research. Since the sequencing of the honeybee genome, published in 2006, bees have been used increasingly for research into the molecular basis for social interaction and other complex behaviors.

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    Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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    Claudia Lutz and Charley Nye, Robinson Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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    6756

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