Spatial ecology of a range-expanding bumble bee pollinator [PDF]
, 2019 Molecular methods have greatly increased our understanding of the previously cryptic spatial ecology of bumble bees (Bombus spp.), with knowledge of the spatial ecology of these bees being central to conserving their essential pollination services ...
Bourke, Andrew F. G. +4 more
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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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Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are the critical elements responsible for binding and transporting odors and pheromones in the sensitive olfactory system in insects.
Xin-Mi Song +6 more
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Low-Temperature Stress during Capped Brood Stage Increases Pupal Mortality, Misorientation and Adult Mortality in Honey Bees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are key pollinators, playing a vital role in ecosystem maintenance and stability of crop yields. Recently, reduced honey bee survival has attracted intensive attention.
Qing Wang +6 more
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Metabolomics-based biomarker discovery for bee health monitoring : a proof of concept study concerning nutritional stress in Bombus terrestris [PDF]
, 2019 Bee pollinators are exposed to multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors. Understanding the effects of a single stressor in the complex environmental context of antagonistic/synergistic interactions is critical to pollinator monitoring and may serve ...
Meeus, Ivan +5 more
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Effects of Flight on Gene Expression and Aging in the Honey Bee Brain and Flight Muscle [PDF]
, 2012 Honey bees move through a series of in-hive tasks (e.g., “nursing”) to outside tasks (e.g., “foraging”) that are coincident with physiological changes and higher levels of metabolic activity.
Ammons, Andrew +5 more
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Parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade policing [PDF]
, 2002 Relocation of the Cape honeybee, Apis mellifera capensis, by bee-keepers from southern to northern South Africa in 1990 has caused widespread death of managed African honeybee, A. m. scutellata, colonies.
A Barron +19 more
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Anarchy in the UK: Detailed genetic analysis of worker reproduction in a naturally occurring British anarchistic honeybee, Apis mellifera, colony using DNA microsatellites [PDF]
, 2002 Anarchistic behaviour is a very rare phenotype of honeybee colonies. In an anarchistic colony, many workers’ sons are reared in the presence of the queen. Anarchy has previously been described in only two Australian colonies.
Arnold G +25 more
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Nutritional benefit of fungal spores for honey bee workers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractThe collection of fungal spores by honey bees,Apis mellifera, can be classified as active or passive, the latter when spores are associated with pollen, nectar or honey dew. While low quality and shortage of pollen have been raised as hypotheses for fungal spore collection, the nutritional value of fungal spores for honey bees is poorly ...
Parish, Jorgiane B. +2 more
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The scent of the waggle dance.
PLoS Biology, 2007 The waggle dance of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) foragers communicates to nest mates the location of a profitable food source. We used solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry to show that waggle-dancing bees ...
Corinna Thom +3 more
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