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Museum genomics suggests long-term population decline in a putatively extinct bumble bee.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Oct 2025
Schweizer Rena M, Grummer Jared A, Tobin Kerrigan B, Corpuz Renee, Geib Scott M, Cox-Foster Diana, Kimsey Lynn S, Koch Jonathan B Uhuad, Branstetter Michael G
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Pollinator declines globally threaten ecosystem stability and agricultural productivity. Reconstructing pollinator historic demographies provides an evolutionary perspective to understand contemporary population declines. The Franklin bumble bee (Bombus franklini), once endemic to Oregon and California and last observed alive in 2006, is emblematic of this phenomenon. We collected whole-genome sequence data from...
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