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Evolutionary Origin and Maintenance of Sociality in the Small Carpenter Bees
… of social behaviour in this phylum. The small carpenter bees, genus Ceratina, provide important insights into the early stages of sociality. I described the biology and social behaviour of five facultatively social species which exhibit all of the preadaptations for successful group living, yet …
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So happy together? : Pollination and reproductive strategy of two sympatric species of Acanthus L. in Kenya
… higher fruit set. Both species are pollinated by carpenter bees (Xylocopa). There is no indication for a partitioning of pollinators through divergent flower morphology, as the species display highly similar flowers. A. eminens offers greater quantities of both nectar and pollen, while the total …
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Analysis of the effect of genetic heterogeneity on de novo genome assembly using Xylocopa virginica as a model.
… this work, we used Xylocopa virginica (Eastern carpenter bees) as a unique model organism for examining on the effect of sequence heterozygosity on quality of de novo genome assembly. Using two de Bruijn graph genome assemblers, we assembled four bee genomes representing different sex and age …
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Environmental and social influences of foraging behaviour and maternal investment with a note on the mating frequency of the eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica
… relatedness and non-kin sociality in the Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica. In Chapter 2, using a natural experiment which included a drought and three normal weather years, we found that mothers foraged more in a drought but had smaller offspring than most normal weather years. Droughts …