{"id":80,"date":"2003-10-14T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:07","slug":"can-bee-behavior-be-in-the-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"can bee behavior be in the genes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you blame your genes for what you do? A study  in the October 10 issue of <em>Science<\/em> says that honeybees should. An  individual bee&#8217;s occupation can be predicted by knowing what genes are  active in its brain. &#8220;We have discovered a clear molecular signature in  the bee brain that is robustly associated with behavior,&#8221; principle  researcher Gene Robinson of the University of Illinois at  Urbana-Champaign said in a press release. Honeybees normally live about  six weeks. When they first mature, they are nurses who help care for the  young in the hive. Within a few weeks, however, they become foragers,  seeking nectar and pollen. The researchers measured gene activity in  adult bee brains and were able to identify genetic profiles that could  be used to correctly classify a bee as a nurse or a forager. Analyzing  about 5,500 honeybee genes, the researchers found that 39 percent of the  studied genes were turned on and off to make a nurse become a forager.  There are usually many steps between genes and behavior, and to find  them so closely linked is surprising. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 10\/14\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you blame your genes for what you do? A study in the October 10 issue of Science says that honeybees should. An individual bee&#8217;s occupation can be predicted by knowing what genes are active in its brain. &#8220;We have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=80\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}