Landscape and Climate-Associated Selection in the Native and Widespread Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris.

Abstract excerpt

Anthropogenic land-use and climate change pose novel selection pressures on bees, yet their evolutionary responses in terms of morphological or physiological adaptations remain unclear. While adaptive responses are expected, these may be constrained by gene flow when changes in selection pressures are spatially heterogeneous. The buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) is a widespread species that copes well...

Topics

• Animals
• Bees
• Sweden
• Gene Flow
• Genetics, Population
• Climate Change
• Selection, Genetic