Honeyguide birds recognize human honey-hunters calls and help them find wild bees' nests.
It shows a unique mutualism with human honey-gatherers whom it guides to bees' nests [ 8], as well as being a highly virulent brood parasite of hole-nesting birds.
GoldenGate assays have, to date, been successfully applied to a variety of species, including humans, honey bee [ 37], cattle [ 38], spruce [ 39], soybean [ 40] and barley [ 41].
Parts of a sid-1 homologous grasshopper gene (Sa_sid-1) were isolated by degenerate PCR from nymphal cDNA using a set of nested primer pairs designed against the C-terminal region of sid-1, which is strongly conserved between sid-1 of C.elegans and sid-1 homologous sequences identified in EST databases of human and honey bee (Additional File 1).
The effects of alcohol on bees are sufficiently similar to the effects of alcohol on humans that honey bees have been used as models of human ethanol intoxication.
Dr Stopfer and Dr Laurent conclude that bees need their brain waves for fine discrimination between similar smells.There is no guarantee that humans and honey bees are alike in their use of brain waves to smell things.
Humans and honey bees get by with just three, but they use their brains to compute the different shades.
In Germany, for instance, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), and the Federal Environment Agency UBAA) separately assess risks for humans, for honey bees, and for the environment, respectively.
Although this compound is quickly metabolized from the body and is known to be non-persistent in the environment, exposure to the levels detected (0.092 mg/kg) in this study over a long period could result in adverse health effects to both humans and honey bees.
