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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Megachile rotundata"”.
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Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Foraging Preferences are Negatively Correlated with Alfalfa Leafcutting Bee (Megachile Rotundata) Productivity in Virginian Landscapes
… these same landscapes. Alfalfa leafcutting bees (Megachile rotundata) are managed, polylectic, solitary, cavity-nesting bees that are widely naturalized in North America. We selected M. rotundata as a model organism to validate the honey bee foraging data because they share some characteristics …
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Exploring the evolution of social behaviour using genomic data
… data for two of the bees, Bombus impatiens and Megachile rotundata using Illumina sequencing technology. The reads generated were assembled using a de Bruijn graph based assembly algorithm into scaffolds having a N50 of 1.12 Mb and 31 Kb respectively.
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Mechanisms involved in eusocial evolution in bees
… of social bees, the alfalfa leafcutting bee Megachile rotundata. In Chapter 4, I test the hypothesis that social insect castes evolved from an ancestral groundplan regulating the expression of larval diapause. I found that the main regulator of caste determination, larval nutrition, also …
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Death by a thousand cuts: the role of pesticides, predators, and habitat patch characteristics on wild bee and insect communities
… an effect on adult female Osmia lignaria or Megachile rotundata adult brain development, significant changes in the movement characteristics of female O. lignaria and male M. rotundata could have negative consequences for bee populations. Female O. lignaria exposed to moderate (15 ppb) and …