O.o (Actual Reuters news article)

[solarbird]

With its highly evolved social structure of tens of thousands of worker bees commanded by Queen Elizabeth, the honey bee genome could also improve the search for genes linked to social behavior.

But the consortium of scientists, who reported the findings in the journal Nature, said a comprehensive analysis of the honey bee and other species will be needed to understand its social life.

Queen Elizabeth has 10 times the lifespan of workers and lays up to 2,000 eggs a day. Despite having tiny brains, honey bees display honed cognitive abilities and learn to associate a flower's color, shape and scent with food, which increases its foraging ability.

Comments

[darkphoenixrisn.livejournal.com]

ROFL!

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

It's one of the lesser-known hereditary titles.

[drglam]

I knew we should have insisted on seeing the page proofs!

-one of the bee genome paper coauthors

[solarbird]

I cannot believe that Nature spelled your name wrong. Bastards!

[drglam]

It wasn't actually Nature's fault. My boss submitted the incorrect spelling, and never showed us curators the page proofs before he signed off on them for us.

It's been corrected on the Nature website, and they'll be running an erratum. The correction went through within 18 hours of my emailing the editorial staff.

[solarbird]

Well, that's good, anyway. And it's not like it somehow becomes invalid. Yay, pub in Nature! ^_^

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

The thought of thousands of British royals hatching daily gives me the urge to shriek in terror.

[solarbird]

zomg r-selected means ROYAL

IT'S THE JELLY! THE JELLLLYYYYYYYYYYYY!