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Invasion success of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, despite a drastic genetic bottleneck.
Heredity - 1 Oct 2007
Schmid-Hempel P, Schmid-Hempel R, Brunner P C, Seeman O D, Allen G R
Abstract excerpt
In early 1992, the European bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, was first seen in Tasmania and currently has spread to most of the island. Here, we report on the genetic structure, using micro-satellites, of the invading population from samples collected in the years 1998-2000, a few years after the first sighting of the species in its new area. The data show that the Tasmanian population has a very low genetic...
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