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Genome Sequencing of Museum Specimens Reveals Rapid Changes in the Genetic Composition of Honey Bees in California.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Feb 2018
Cridland Julie M, Ramirez Santiago R, Dean Cheryl A, Sciligo Amber, Tsutsui Neil D
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The western honey bee, Apis mellifera, is an enormously influential pollinator in both natural and managed ecosystems. In North America, this species has been introduced numerous times from a variety of different source populations in Europe and Africa. Since then, feral populations have expanded into many different environments across their broad introduced range. Here, we used whole genome sequencing of...
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