Brock Harpur
@beeharpur.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Purdue and Director of the Honey Bee Lab. I am a Biologist and I like working with honey bees. I'm interested in genomics, evolution, behaviour, and community science. A beekeeper for >15 years.
https://www.beemolevo.com/
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We worked with a beekeeper in Kentucky (and third author) to identify what was causing half of his drones to have white eyes. We were able to identify a recessively-acting mutation in an uncharacterized ncRNA. Great work here by much of the lab and especially the lead, PhD Candidate Riley Shultz
New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectMolecBio
Eye can see clearly now: Identifying the locus associated with a white-eye mutation in honey #bees (#Apis mellifera)
doi.org/10.1111/imb.70019
#CommunityScience #FunctionalGenomics
@sassanasgari.bsky.social @gulianusslab.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social
Eye can see clearly now: Identifying the locus associated with a white-eye mutation in honey #bees (#Apis mellifera)
doi.org/10.1111/imb.70019
#CommunityScience #FunctionalGenomics
@sassanasgari.bsky.social @gulianusslab.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We worked with a beekeeper in Kentucky (and third author) to identify what was causing half of his drones to have white eyes. We were able to identify a recessively-acting mutation in an uncharacterized ncRNA. Great work here by much of the lab and especially the lead, PhD Candidate Riley Shultz