Posts Tagged: University of Illinois
Pollination Ecologist to Speak on Role of Soils in Bee Conservation Efforts
Pollination ecologist Alexandra Harmon-Threatt, an associate professor at the University of...
Pollination ecologist Alexander Harmon-Threatt focuses on the 80 percent of bees that nest underground.
Groundbreaking Research: Odorant Receptor Genes Found in Wingless Insect
(Embargo lifts at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, July 31, 2018) Doctoral candidate Philipp Brand and his...
Philipp Brand found the odorant receptor genes in a wingless insect, the firebrat. He is a member of the Population Biology Graduate Group who researches the evolution of olfactory/odorant receptor genes in orchid bees and flies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
odorant receptor genes, the scent-detecting genes thought to have evolved with winged insects more than 400 million years ago. But this groundbreaking discovery indicates they evolved millions of years earlier.
Eminent Bee Scientist Gene Robinson to Deliver Chancellor's Colloquium on Feb. 22
DAVIS--Eminent honey bee scientist Gene E. Robinson of the University of Illinois at...
What a Buzz!
Right out of Champaign, Ill., comes a research story about honey bees on...
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