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Molecular taxonomic analysis of the plant associations of adult pollen beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), and the population structure of Brassicogethes aeneus.
Genome - 1 Dec 2016
Ouvrard Pierre, Hicks Damien M, Mouland Molly, Nicholls James A, Baldock Katherine C R, Goddard Mark A, Kunin William E, Potts Simon G, Thieme Thomas, Veromann Eve, Stone Graham N
Abstract excerpt
Pollen beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae) are among the most abundant flower-visiting insects in Europe. While some species damage millions of hectares of crops annually, the biology of many species is little known. We assessed the utility of a 797 base pair fragment of the cytochrome oxidase 1 gene to resolve molecular operational taxonomic units (MOTUs) in 750 adult pollen beetles sampled from flowers of 63...
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