The introduction and spread of the African honey bee and its hybrids in the New World has received substantial public and scientific attention. In this book the available scientific information concerning the identification, biology, and management of the bee is reviewed. This book is particularly timely, given the recent arrival of the African bee

This book is the first review of the scientific literature on the Africanized honey bee. The African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata (formerly adansonii) was introduced into South America in 1956 with the intent of cross-breeding it with other subspecies of bees already present in Brazil to obtain a honey bee better adapted to tropical conditions. Shortly after its introduction, some of the African stock became established in the feral population around Sao Paulo, Brazil, and spread rapidly through Brazil. It has since migrated through most of the neotropics, displacing and/or hybridizing with the previously imported subspecies of honey bees. Africanized bees have been stereotype d as having high rates of swarming and absconding, rapid colony growth, and fierce defensivebehavior. As they have spread through the neotropics they have interacted with the human population, disrupting apiculture and urban activities when high levels of defensive behavior are expressed.

Diese erste Veroffentlichung uber den Stand der Projekte zur Erforschung des menschlichen Genoms setzt sich kritisch mit den ethischen Aspekten der Genomanalyse und Gentherapie in der Humanmedizin auseinander. Fuhrende Experten stellen die breite Vielfalt der ethischen, medizinischen und politischen Bewertungspositionen fur eine der erfolgversprechendsten und umstrittensten Entwicklungen der modernen biomedizinischen Forschung vor. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung steht die Diskussion um die Erweiterung der pranatalen Diagnose und die mogliche Entwicklung einer Pradiktivmedizin mit langfristiger Prognostik; weitere Schwerpunkte bilden die Auseinandersetzungen der Tarifpartner um die Rolle der Genomanalyse in der Arbeitsmedizin sowie die Bedenken um das Wiederaufleben einer eugenischen Ideologie und die Bewertung der Unterschiede zwischen somatischer Gentherapie und Keimbahntherapie in der Humanmedizin. Das Buch wendet sich vor allem an Forscher, Ethiker und Politiker, aber auch an diejenigen Leser, die sich mit den ethischen und kulturellen Aspekten der Anwendung der Gentechnik am Menschen auseinandersetzen wollen.

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