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Conservation genetics of neotropical pollinators revisited: microsatellite analysis suggests that diploid males are rare in orchid bees.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2010
Souza Rogério O, Del Lama Marco A, Cervini Marcelo, Mortari Norma, Eltz Thomas, Zimmermann Yvonne, Bach Carola, Brosi Berry J, Suni Sevan, Quezada-Euán J Javier G, Paxton Robert J
Abstract excerpt
Allozyme analyses have suggested that Neotropical orchid bee (Euglossini) pollinators are vulnerable because of putative high frequencies of diploid males, a result of loss of sex allele diversity in small hymenopteran populations with single locus complementary sex determination. Our analysis of 1010 males from 27 species of euglossine bees sampled across the Neotropics at 2–11 polymorphic microsatellite loci...
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