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Influence of social lifestyles on host-microbe symbioses in the bees. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Microbiome diversity in bees from various social lifestyles and taxa was investigated using cloud computing and publicly available transcriptomic data. Results show that bacterial communities in bees are influenced by host location, phylogeny, and social lifestyle, with more complex bee societies hosting more diverse microbes.
Mee L, Barribeau SM.
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Plant species with the trait of continuous flowering do not hold core roles in a Neotropical lowland plant-pollinating insect network. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 Plant species with longer reproductive seasons are posited to support more interactions compared to plant species with shorter reproductive seasons but this hypothesis has not been evaluated for plant species with the longest reproductive season possible at the individual plant level, the continuous reproductive phenology.
Hinton CR, Peters VE.
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Five decades of misunderstanding in the social Hymenoptera: a review and meta-analysis of Michener's paradox. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 2022 ABSTRACT In a much‐cited 1964 paper entitled “Reproductive efficiency in relation to colony size in hymenopterous societies,” Charles Michener investigated the correlation between a colony's size and its reproductive efficiency – the ability of its adult females to produce reproductives, measured as per‐capita output. Based on his analysis of published
Jeanne RL +4 more
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Microbial Evolution in Allodapine Bees: Perspectives From Trophallactic, Socially Plastic Pollinators. [PDF]
Evol ApplABSTRACT This review seeks a deeper functional understanding of wild bee microbiomes by focusing on a tribe of bees where natural history and behavioral ecology are well known but investigations of microbiology are just beginning. Opportunities to improve our future knowledge of pathogens to insect pollinators are explored—which have broad ...
Tierney SM, Jeffries TC, Koch H.
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DISTRIBUTION DATA FOR THE TRIBES CERATININI AND ALLODAPINI (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE) WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE SUBFAMILY XYLOCOPINAE OF TURKEY [PDF]
, 2016 The present study is based on bee samples collected in various parts of Turkey since the 1970s. Examination of the material and an overview of the literature sources allowed us to reach the conclusion that the genus Ceratina Latreille (Ceratinini ...
Özbek, Hikmet, Terzo, Michael
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New Ceratinini from Australia (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) [PDF]
, 1963 Volume: 44Start Page: 257End Page ...
Michener, Charles D.
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Structural Colour in Bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) Is Linked to Climate and Latitude
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 35, Issue 9, September 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Environmental drivers frequently predict global patterns of colour diversity, but whether such patterns depend on the underlying colour mechanisms—pigments or microscopic structures—has scarcely been considered. Structural colour may have different functional properties that result in different associations with environmental variables ...
Patricia Henríquez‐Piskulich +6 more
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Zoologica Scripta, Volume 54, Issue 6, Page 884-896, November 2025.ABSTRACT The large carpenter bees of the genus Xylocopa comprise almost 400 species distributed worldwide. Their large body and ability to build nests through woodworking make them one of the most remarkable groups of bees. In the Neotropics, they comprise over 100 species occurring in tropical and subtropical environments including islands in the ...
Gabriel A. R. Melo, Aline C. Martins
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Chronogram from the BEAST uncorrelated log normal relaxed clock analysis.
, 2013 The outgroup, corbiculate apids, have been removed and the four Xylocopinae tribes are colour coded. The root node was set at 107Ceratina unimaculata (Ceratinini), Allodapula rozeni (Allodapini), Manuelia gayi (Manueliini) and Xylocopa sp. (Xylocopini).
Remko Leys (171644) +2 more
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How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?
Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 93, Issue 11, Page 1610-1621, November 2024.Climate change is rapidly reorganizing the distributions and expression of social phenotypes in bees. Because sociality mediates climate responses, and climate drives social evolution, understanding these linkages between sociality and climate is crucial for predicting vulnerability and resilience across bee taxa. Abstract Climatic factors are known to
Madeleine M. Ostwald +2 more
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