RNA editing is abundant and correlates with task performance in a social bumblebee
Bumblebee workers are genetically highly similar but they show different behaviors such as brood care and foraging. Here the authors report a high level of ADAR-mediated RNA editing in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris and its weak correlation to task performance.
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-04-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09543-w |