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Local and landscape features of urban fragments determine the occurrence of stingless bees As características locais e paisagísticas dos fragmentos urbanos determinam a ocorrência de uma espécie de abelhas sem ferrão

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 18, Issue 6, Page 1027-1036, November 2025.
Both local and landscape factors associated with habitat availability and quality determine the persistence of stingless bees across fragments. Places where the species occurs have local and landscape characteristics distinctive from those where it is absent.
Yasmine Antonini, Rogério Parentoni Martins, Joao C. F. Cardoso   +2 more
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First report of the use of extrafloral nectaries of Bauhinia forficata Link (Fabales: Fabaceae) by Tetragonisca angustula Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2019
We report here for the first time the use of extrafloral nectaries of Bauhinia forficata Link by Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille, 1811). This behavior was observed in an urban area in southern Brazil during the afternoon between December 2018 and ...
10.35249/rche.45.4.19.18
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Special Issue on Stingless bees: Integrating basic biology and conservation

Sociobiology, 2014
It is easy to see why stingless bees (Meliponini) were chosen for this special issue, entitled Stingless bees: Integrating basic biology and conservation.
Cândida Maria Lima Aguiar, Denise Araujo Alves, Tom Wenseleers, Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca   +3 more
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24 million years of pollination interaction between European linden flowers and bumble bees

New Phytologist, Volume 248, Issue 4, Page 2111-2127, November 2025.
Summary Pollination is the most common insect–plant mutualism, binding them in a co‐evolutionary framework. Historic evidence of this interaction can be partly inferred from time‐calibrated molecular phylogenies of plant and insect lineages or directly from fossils.
Christian Geier, Michael S. Engel, Johannes M. Bouchal, Silvia Ulrich, Jürg Schönenberger, Dieter Uhl, Torsten Wappler, Sonja Wedmann, Loup Boudet, Friðgeir Grímsson   +9 more
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The Large Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa, Apidae) of the Neotropical Region: Phylogenetics, Classification and Biogeography

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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The mitochondrial genome of the stingless bee Melipona bicolor (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): sequence, gene organization and a unique tRNA translocation event conserved across the tribe Meliponini

Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2008
At present a complete mtDNA sequence has been reported for only two hymenopterans, the Old World honey bee, Apis mellifera and the sawfly Perga condei. Among the bee group, the tribe Meliponini (stingless bees) has some distinction due to its Pantropical
Daniela Silvestre, Mark Dowton, Maria Cristina Arias   +2 more
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Evolution of Phospholipase A2 in Bees and Flies

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.
This study investigated the evolution of the PLA2 gene in bees and flies and compared the evolutionary rate between them, which denotes the toxic group and the non‐toxic group. The results showed that PLA2 was under purifying selection and that an accelerated evolution of PLA2 occurred in the toxic group when compared with the non‐toxic group ...
Siqi Yang, Minyu Wu, Ping Feng
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The role and significance of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes: Meliponini) in the natural environment

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, 2019
This article refers to the biology and ecology of stingless bees (Meliponini), living in tropical and subtropical areas. Similar to honey bees (Apis mellifera), stingless bees (Meliponini) belong to the category of proper social insects and are at the ...
Bąk-Badowska Jolanta, Żeber-Dzikowska Ilona, Gworek Barbara, Kacprzyk Wanda, Chmielewski Jarosław   +4 more
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An Introduction to Simple Saccharides and Oligosaccharides, and a Decadal Review of Their Analysis in Food by Ion Chromatography and Ion Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

Food Science &Nutrition, Volume 13, Issue 10, October 2025.
Graphical Abstract of Factors Affecting the Saccharides Content of Fruits and Vegetables, for Analysis ABSTRACT This paper provides a decadal review of literature describing the analysis of simple saccharides and oligosaccharides in food by ion chromatography pulsed amperometric detection (IC/PAD) and ion chromatography mass spectrometry (IC/MS) as ...
Hans S. A. Yates, James. F. Carter, Achamma Joseph, Melody Chaussende, Mary T. Fletcher, Viviene Santiago, Natasha L. Hungerford   +6 more
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More than fruity scents: Pollination biology, scent, and spectral reflectance of Annonaceae species

Plant Species Biology, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 403-425, September 2025.
We characterised the floral visual and olfactory cues of numerous Annonaceae species and reported their pollinators. We further assessed the olfactory space of most Annonaceae species available in the literature. Abstract The family Annonaceae possesses a broad array of floral phenotypes and pollination specializations, and are important in the plant ...
Ming‐Fai Liu, Junhao Chen, Chun‐Chiu Pang, Tanya Scharaschkin, Richard M. K. Saunders   +4 more
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