Bee genetics again

[Jon]

I came across this link which has nice colour coded diagrams with regard to the old chestnut about inbreeding.

http://www.glenn-apiaries.com/geneti...duction_1.html

[Jimbo]

Jon you only just found it! Nice explaination though. I have seen these diagrams before in a bee genetics paper a number of years ago. I will look and see if I can find the link when I get time. DNA is old hat now what you want to look at is miRNA and gene chips.

Jimbo

[gavin]

Show off!

Anyway, we're talking just genes and not even DNA. *Genes* are what matters, not this little spots on tiny slides stuff.

Mr Picky here read through the stuff and thought it absolutely grand, so you can take that as a vote of confidence in the site.

[Neils]

Some people might take that as a sign it should be avoided at all costs

Bookmarked for later perusal as it feels like I'm learning Latin at the moment; why can't we use monty python latin for stuff? Smallus hivebeetleus is much easier to remember

[HensandBees]

I guess I better not say in public what my OH came up with for remembering the latin for American Foul Brood .... . but it went something along the lines of Pain the B.......de I have never forgotten it .... just cannot spell it Good Luck for Saturday

[HensandBees]

that should have read Pain in the B...de I cant type

[gavin]

Some people might take that as a sign it should be avoided at all costs

Where has the contrary one gone anyway? Away to recharge his batteries for the next bout?

... should have read Pain in the B...de

I'm left wondering if you are offering a new competition, guess the letters? S'pose it must be 'acksi'? That isn't so rude as to need hiding!

Anyway, it used to be called Bacillus (easy!) larvae (easier!). Then someone stuck on a 'Paeni-' to complicate matters. I read somewhere that 'paeni-' might mean almost, as in peninsula, but who knows. Anyway, Paenibacillus.

You get a better quality of chat on SBAi.

G.

[Neils]

There's a second larvae on the end now apparently too. Paenebacillus Larvae Larvae. The DEFRA book doesn't use the second one though so confusion abounds but I'm told if you take the modules south of the border they want the second Larvae in the name.

[gavin]

9/10

It would have been 10/10 but you don't capitalise the Larvae.

Two words in the name exactly the same?! Couldn't be easier!

[Neils]

FFS.

This us we need to be able to edit posts, so Its not preserved for posterity that I typoed paenibacillus while typing on a phone on the bus and then have to write a ranty post about the unfairness of the world and how everyone hates me...

Sorry, think I was channeling Lilly Allen or something.