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Characteristics of dominance: behaviours and hormones in a facultatively social bee species (Xylocopa virginica)
In facultatively social species such as Xylocopa virginica (eastern carpenter bee), individuals can breed either on their own or in groups, where resources are monopolized by a single dominant female. As such, we would expect that natural selection would act strongly in this species to promote …
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Analysis of the effect of genetic heterogeneity on de novo genome assembly using Xylocopa virginica as a model.
… current genome assemblers. In 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 …
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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
… 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 conditions lead …