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A Cis-Regulatory Duplication in a Hox Hotspot Implicated in Mimetic Convergence in the Bumble Bee Bombus flavifrons.

Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2026

Dabak Tunç, Lozier Jeffrey D, Smith Cecil, Meadows Brandon, Koch Jonathan Berenguer Uhuad, Hines Heather M

Abstract excerpt

Several species of North American bumble bees spanning the Pacific Coastal and Rocky Mountain regions converge onto distinct mimetic abdominal colour forms for each region by switching abdominal coloration from black to red. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of red and black transitions in two mimics (Bombus melanopygus and Bombus vancouverensis) revealed that black forms were generated by...

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Animals
Bees
Pigmentation
Gene Duplication
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Phenotype

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Biological Mimicry

Genome-Wide Association Study

Genes, Homeobox

Evolution, Molecular

Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid

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PMID: 42703153
DOI: 10.1111/mec.70539
PMCID: PMC13547998

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