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Honey bee geneticists with long ties to UC Davis are putting together those missing pieces of the puzzle involving bee chromosomes. Newly published research by a team of Germany-based honey bee geneticists, collaborating with Robert Eugene (Rob) Page Jr.

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Newly published research by a team of Germany-based honey bee geneticists, collaborating with Robert Page Jr. of Arizona State University/University of California, Davis, offers new insights in the ability to modify and study the chromosomes of honey bees.

By Faith Kearns Evelyn Valdez-Ward is a doctoral student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine where her research focuses on the effects of climate change and drought on plants and soils.

The Camp Fire, California's deadliest wildfire, rages on. So far, 52,000 people have been evacuated, 11,000 homes burned, 71 confirmed dead, and over a thousand still missing. Jose Uriarte's taco and burrito shop, Gordo Burrito in Chico, CA, is just outside the wildfire's range.

San Diego County officials want to approve construction of about 10,000 homes in areas largely labeled by CAL FIRE as posing a "very-high" fire hazard, reported Joshua Emerson Smith in the San Diego Union Tribune.

This seminar will provide an overview of pest biology and management, including aphids, thrips, and lepidoptera, for both leafy greens and cole crops. This seminar will also address the potential regulatory situation of pyrethroids and neonicotinoids.

February 12-15, 2019 Springhill Suites Napa, CA and Oakville Experimental Vineyard Oakville, CA UC Davis...

Thanks to everyone who participated, UC ANR's #GivingTuesday campaign was a resounding success. We surpassed our stretch goal of $100,000, Emily Delk, director of Annual Giving and Donor Stewardship, announced jubilantly before 5 p.m.

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