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Diversification of Fijian halictine bees: insights into a recent island radiation.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Sept 2013
Groom Scott V C, Stevens Mark I, Schwarz Michael P
Abstract excerpt
Although bees form a key pollinator suite for flowering plants, very few studies have examined the evolutionary radiation of non-domesticated bees over human time-scales. This is surprising given the importance of bees for crop pollination and the effect of humans in transforming ecosystems via agriculture. In the Pacific, where the bee fauna appears depauperate, their importance as pollinators is not clear,...
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