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Evolution of Phospholipase A2 in Bees and Flies [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionPhospholipase A2 (PLA2) as a component of venom has been studied intensively in venomous snakes while little has been done in insects. In this study, we firstly identified PLA2 among 36 Hymenoptera (Apis and Bombus genera) and 28 Diptera (Drosophila ...
Siqi Yang, Minyu Wu, Ping Feng
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Tracing ancient viral footprints: a comprehensive study of endogenous viral elements in Bombus species [PDF]
Mobile DNABackground Endogenous Viral Elements (EVEs) are viral sequences integrated into the host germline and passed to offspring. Most virus types can integrate, often with the help of host retroelements, especially for non-retroviral RNA viruses.
Lucas Barbosa de Amorim Conceição +5 more
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The genetic basis of mimicry in the snowy bumble bee (Bombus niveatus) in Anatolia with insights from a color polymorphic gynandromorph. [PDF]
PLoS GeneticsBumble bees (Bombus spp.) display remarkable color pattern diversity and convergence driven largely by Müllerian mimicry. In Anatolia, bumble bees mimic each other by converting ancestral yellow anterior setal body color to white in multiple independent ...
Tunç Dabak +6 more
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Bumble bees are important pollinators for a great diversity of wild and cultivated plants, and in many parts of the world certain species have been found to be in decline, gone locally extinct, or even globally extinct.
Elaine Evans +14 more
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Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2022 Resumen. Aunque la urbanización es uno de los mayores impulsores de transformación ecológica a nivel global, su impacto sobre la biodiversidad y procesos ecosistémicos como la polinización ha sido poco estudiado, especialmente en el trópico.
Andrés Pereira-Guaqueta
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Arable field margins provide important floral resources for insect foragers. This study assessed the significance of cultivated margins and floristically enhanced margins, both English agri-environment scheme (AES) options, to foraging bumble bees ...
Niamh Mary McHugh +7 more
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The potential of electricity transmission corridors in forested areas as bumblebee habitat [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Declines in pollinator abundance and diversity are not only a conservation issue, but also a threat to crop pollination. Maintained infrastructure corridors, such as those containing electricity transmission lines, are potentially important wild ...
Bruce Hill, Ignasi Bartomeus
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New locality records and additional information on the Bombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) fauna of Turkey
Біологічні студії, 2021 Background. The article presents the results of the research on bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) housed in the Lodos Entomological Museum (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey). Bumblebees play a key role in ecosystems as pollinators.
S. Tezcan, I. Skyrpan
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Endosymbionts that threaten commercially raised and wild bumble bees (Bombus spp.)
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are important pollinators for both wild and agriculturally managed plants. We give an overview of what is known about the diverse community of internal potentially deleterious bumble bee symbionts, including viruses, bacteria ...
Laura Figueroa +14 more
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Using the combined gene approach and multiple analytical methods to improve the phylogeny and classification of Bombus (Hymenoptera, Apidae) in China [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Bumble bees are vital to our agro-ecological system, with approximately 250 species reported around the world in the single genus Bombus. However, the health of bumble bees is threatened by multiple factors: habitat loss, climate change, pesticide use ...
Liu-Hao Wang +5 more
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