Recycling old genes to get new traits — How social behavior evolves in bees

A team working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found evidence to support a long-debated mode of evolution, revealing how evolution captures environmental variation to teach old genes new tricks: Sweat bees switch from solitary to social behavior, repurposing ancient sets of genes that originally evolved to regulate the development of other traits. Honeybees,…

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Advances in the production of minor ginsenosides using microorganisms and their enzymes

Advances in the Production of Minor Ginsenosides Using Microorganisms and Their Enzymes – BIO Integration https://bio-integration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bioi20200007.pdf Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this review article the author Almando Geraldi from the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia considers the advances in the production of minor ginsenosides using microorganisms and their enzymes. In this review,…

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