Post-invasion selection acts on standing genetic variation despite a severe founding bottleneck

KA Dogantzis, R Raffiudin, RE Putra, I Shaleh… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Invasive populations often have lower genetic diversity relative to the native-range
populations from which they derive. 1, 2 Despite this, many biological invaders succeed in …

Serial founder effects slow range expansion in an invasive social insect

T Hagan, G Ding, G Buchmann, BP Oldroyd… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Invasive populations often experience founder effects: a loss of genetic diversity relative to
the source population, due to a small number of founders. Even where these founder effects …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of Microplastics in Bees and Their Products in Urban and Rural Areas of the Sabana De Bogotá, Colombia

LD Gómez-Méndez, JE Robles-Camargo… - Microplastics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Microplastics, plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm present in the environment due to the
decomposition of larger plastics, can cause damage to various ecosystems and species of …

Variability of wing morphology of Apis mellifera in Ukraine

VV Babenko, OV Cherevatov, VI Yarovets - Agrology, 2024 - agrologyjournal.com
The morphological characteristics of drone wings were studied at apiaries in Khmelnytskyi,
Lviv, Zhy-tomyr, Kyiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv oblasts of Ukraine. Using the classical …

[PDF][PDF] Characterization of Microplastics in Bees and Their Bee Products in Urban and Rural Areas of the Sabana De Bogotá, Colombia

LD Gómez-Méndez, JE Robles-Camargo… - 2024 - preprints.org
Microplastics, plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm present in the environment due to the
decomposition of larger plastics, can cause damage to various ecosystems and species of …