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Genetic differentiation and adaptive evolution of buff‐tailed bumblebees in Asia

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This study investigates the genetic differentiation and local adaptation of the buff‐tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) across its European and Asian populations. Using whole‐genome resequencing, we identified distinct genetic differences between populations, with Asian B. terrestris representing a unique genetic resource.
Long Su, Lele Ding, Paul H. Williams, Yan Liu, Ruijuan Wang, Xiaoyan Dai, Shan Zhao, Haolin Fu, Xiaomeng Zhao, Quangui Wang, Yancan Li, Huiling Sang, Robert M. Waterhouse, Yifan Zhai, Cheng Sun   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Big bees do a better job : intraspecific size variation influences pollination effectiveness

, 2014
Funding: School of Biology, University of St AndrewsBumblebees (Bombus spp.) are efficient pollinators of many flowering plants, yet the pollen deposition performance of individual bees has not been investigated.
Finlayson, Kathryn, P. G. Willmer, K. Finlayson, Pat Willmer, Willmer, Patricia Gillian, Kathryn Finlayson   +5 more
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Chronic exposure to imidacloprid increases neuronal vulnerability to mitochondrial dysfunction in the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) [PDF]

, 2015
This work was funded jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Natural Environment Research Council, the Scottish Government, and The Wellcome Trust, under the ...
Bollan, Karen A., Connolly, C.N., Moffat, C., Buckland, Stephen Terrence, Goncalves Pacheco, J., Huang, Jeffrey; id_orcid, Buckland, Stephen T., Pacheco, Joao Goncalves, Moffat, Christopher, Samson, A.J., Connolly, Christopher N., Bollan, K.A., Sharp, Sheila, Samson, Andrew J., Sharpe, S., Huang, J.   +15 more
core   +1 more source

Spatial and temporal patterns of genetic diversity in Bombus terrestris populations of the Iberian Peninsula and their conservation implications

Scientific Reports, 2021
The bumblebee Bombus terrestris is used worldwide for crop pollination. Despite its positive impact on crop yield, it has become a widespread threat to biodiversity due to its interactions with local bumblebee populations.
Diego Cejas, Pilar De la Rúa, Concepción Ornosa, Denis Michez, Irene Muñoz   +4 more
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Foraging preferences of bumble bee castes are weakly related to plant species cover on two arable agri-environment habitat types

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, Rachel Nichols, Adam McVeigh, Belinda Bown, Roseanne Powell, Philip Wilson, Emily Swan, John Holland   +7 more
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Brood parasitism reduces but does not prevent Bombus terrestris reproductive success

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Graphical depiction of the colony splitting process. Throughout figures in this paper, results pertaining to host success are represented in blue, and cuckoo success is represented in red. Abstract Cuckoo bumblebees are obligate brood parasites that must invade a colony of their host bumblebee species in order to reproduce.
Sofia Dartnell, Lynn V. Dicks
wiley   +1 more source

Potential Correlation Between Bombus lantschouensis Thoracic Morphology and Flight Behavior

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Potential correlation between Bombus lantschouensis thoracic morphology and flight behavior. ABSTRACT Remarkably little modern work has investigated the thoracic structures of insects and their relationship to flight locomotion. Most studies focus exclusively on either morphology or flight kinematics.
Wenjie Li, Sipei Liu, Le Zong, Zhengzhong Huang, Lei Jiang, Xiaokun Liu, Pingping Yang, Yitian Zhang, Zhong Du, Weili Fan, Zhuanghui Qin, Xieshuang Wang, Xinying Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Haodong Yin, Jiandong An, Chaodong Zhu, Michael C. Orr, Jiangning Wang, Siqin Ge   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colony‐level pollen collection reflects visitation of managed bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) in strawberry fields and surrounding landscapes without reducing pollen limitation

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
We extracted pollen from colony beeswax to quantify season‐long, colony‐level resource use and tested how managed Bombus impatiens visitation and Rosaceae pollen collection relate to landscape context and strawberry pollination. Increased managed bumble bee visitation was not influenced by surrounding landcover, did not reduce pollen limitation and ...
Leeah I. Richardson, Olivia Miller, David Sossa, Aaron Iverson, Scott McArt, Katja Poveda, Heather Grab   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban bees of the world

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Bees play a pivotal role in terrestrial environments. Urbanization can affect these organisms and the ecosystem services they provide. However, knowledge of the global diversity of urban bees is limited. Thus, we summarized data on urban bee species identities and occurrences; compared distributions of all bees with those found in urban ...
João C. F. Cardoso, Pietro K. Maruyama, Ingrid N. Gomes, Lorena B. Valadão‐Mendes, Victor H. D. Silva, Larissa Lorraine, Jordana O. Borges, Rogério V. Gonçalves, Léo C. Rocha‐Filho, Renata Trevizan, Yasmine Antonini   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methylation and worker reproduction in the bumble-bee (Bombus terrestris) [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014
Insects are at the dawn of an epigenetics era. Numerous social insect species have been found to possess a functioning methylation system, previously not thought to exist in insects. Methylation, an epigenetic tag, may be vital for the sociality and division of labour for which social insects are renowned.
Amarasinghe, Harindra E., Clayton, Crisenthiya I., Mallon, Eamonn B.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources