Abaecin

An antibacterial response peptide produced by honeybees—Apis mellifera—which has a broad spectrum of antibacterial activities and is active against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria.

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One tantalizing lead is abaecin, a peptide that honey bees produce to varying degrees when attacked by pathogens.

"We know these bees are responding to foulbrood by producing abaecin," Evans says.

An agency effort to sequence genomes: unraveling the genome of the honey bee, pig, cow, and chicken

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