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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The effects of climate change on solitary bee species, the most diverse and abundant group of wild pollinators, remain poorly understood, limiting our ability to forecast consequences for bee-plant interactions and pollination services.
Anthony H. Slominski, Laura A. Burkle
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The Genome and Methylome of a Subsocial Small Carpenter Bee, Ceratina calcarata [PDF]
, 2016 Understanding the evolution of animal societies, considered to be a major transition in evolution, is a key topic in evolutionary biology. Recently, new gateways for understanding social evolution have opened up due to advances in genomics, allowing for ...
Glastad, Karl M. +3 more
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Diverse microbiota identified in whole intact nest chambers of the red mason bee Osmia bicornis (Linnaeus 1758). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Microbial activity is known to have profound impact on bee ecology and physiology, both by beneficial and pathogenic effects. Most information about such associations is available for colony-building organisms, and especially the honey bee. There, active
Alexander Keller +2 more
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Gut microbiota variation of a tropical oil-collecting bee species far exceeds that of the honeybee
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionInterest for bee microbiota has recently been rising, alleviating the gap in knowledge in regard to drivers of solitary bee gut microbiota. However, no study has addressed the microbial acquisition routes of tropical solitary bees.
Elif Kardas +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundPollination services provided by solitary bees, the largest group of bees worldwide, are critical to the vitality of ecosystems and agricultural systems alike.
David M Lehmann, Allison A Camp
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Providing foraging resources for solitary bees on farmland: current schemes for pollinators benefit a limited suite of species [PDF]
, 2017 1. Changes in agricultural practice across Europe and North America have been associated with range contractions and a decline in the abundance of wild bees.
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Chemoreceptor Evolution in Hymenoptera and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality. [PDF]
, 2015 Eusocial insects, mostly Hymenoptera, have evolved unique colonial lifestyles that rely on the perception of social context mainly through pheromones, and chemoreceptors are hypothesized to have played important adaptive roles in the evolution of ...
Berger, Shelley L +5 more
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Functional resin use in solitary bees [PDF]
Ecological Entomology, 2021 1. Overall, more than 30% of bee species depend on non‐floral resources, such as resin. However, the importance of resin in bee ecology, particularly for solitary bees, has received very little attention thus far. 2. A plethora of loose natural history observations, inferences, and author opinions hint towards a striking range of uses
Shao Xiong Chui +2 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 The evolution of insect sociality has repeatedly involved changes in developmental events and their timing. Here, we propose the hypothesis that loss of a canonical regulator of moulting and metamorphosis, prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH), and its ...
Claudinéia P. Costa +5 more
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Wild bee toxicity data for pesticide risk assessments [PDF]
, 2019 Pollination services are vital for agriculture, food security and biodiversity. Although many insect species provide pollination services, honeybees are thought to be the major provider of this service to agriculture. However, the importance of wild bees
Lewis, Kathleen, Tzilivakis, John
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