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The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization [PDF]
, 2015 Background: The shift from solitary to social behavior is one of the major evolutionary transitions. Primitively eusocial bumblebees are uniquely placed to illuminate the evolution of highly eusocial insect societies.
Amdam, Gro V. +143 more
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Level of Genetic Diversity in European Bumblebees is Not Determined by Local Species Abundance
Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 Bumblebee species with declining population trends tend to show lower genetic diversity levels than stable species. The observed difference might be explained by abundance differences, with declining bumblebee species having lower genetic diversity ...
Kevin Maebe +4 more
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Molecular biology and evolution, 2020 Bumblebees are a diverse group of globally important pollinators in natural ecosystems and for agricultural food production. With both eusocial and solitary life-cycle phases, and some social parasite species, they are especially interesting models to ...
Cheng Sun +45 more
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A micro-CT-based standard brain atlas of the bumblebee
Cell and Tissue Research, 2021 In recent years, bumblebees have become a prominent insect model organism for a variety of biological disciplines, particularly to investigate learning behaviors as well as visual performance.
Lisa Rother +5 more
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, 2010 Since bumblebees are a group associated with cool climates, Britain supports a large proportion (~10%) of the world's bumblebee fauna. However, three of our 25 species have become extinct, and seven species are Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) listed, a higher proportion than for any other insect group.
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Discrimination of edge orientation by bumblebees [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2022 Simple feature detectors in the visual system, such as edge-detectors, are likely to underlie even the most complex visual processing, so understanding the limits of these systems is crucial for a fuller understanding of visual processing. We investigated the ability of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) to discriminate between differently angled edges. In
Marie Guiraud +4 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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Mapping species distributions: A comparison of skilled naturalist and lay citizen science recording [PDF]
, 2015 To assess the ability of traditional biological recording schemes and lay citizen science approaches to gather data on species distributions and changes therein, we examined bumblebee records from the UK’s national repository (National Biodiversity ...
A Lawrence +41 more
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Slowly rotating Einstein-bumblebee black hole solution and its greybody factor in a Lorentz violation model * [PDF]
Chinese Physics C, High Energy Physics & Nuclear Physics, 2020 We obtain an exact slowly rotating Einstein-bumblebee black hole solution by solving the corresponding $rr$ and $t\phi$ components of the gravitational field equations in both cases: A, $b_\mu=(0,b(r),0,0)$; B, $b_\mu=(0,b(r),\mathfrak{b}(\theta),0 ...
Chikun Ding, Changqing Liu
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Urbanization is associated with shifts in bumblebee body size, with cascading effects on pollination
Evolutionary Applications, 2020 Urbanization is a global phenomenon with major effects on species, the structure of community functional traits and ecological interactions. Body size is a key species trait linked to metabolism, life‐history and dispersal as well as a major determinant ...
P. Theodorou +3 more
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