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Social bees have kept their gut microbes for 80 million years


March 29, 2017

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Bacteria living in the guts of social bees have been passed down from generation to generation for 80 million years, according to a new study. The finding adds to the case that social creatures, like bees and humans, not only transfer bacteria between one another in their own lifetime--they have a distinctive relationship with bacteria over time, in some cases even evolving on parallel tracks as species.Full Story

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