Brock Harpur

@beeharpur

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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Problem was statistical: couldn't perform an Exact Test with '0's in the "thinks white-eyed drones aren't cute" cell.

05.12.2025 19:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thanks! It's great fun working with beekeepers. We actually had 4 mutant producing queens to work with. Expect a few more papers coming.

On this particular one, we hope to have a student working to characterize the ncRNA soon.

05.12.2025 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

thanks, Joe!

05.12.2025 16:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

05.12.2025 16:22 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1