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The sweat bee, H. rubicundus, is less sociable in Scotland than in Cornwall, but is genetically differentiated and genetically isolated too

The sweat bee, H. rubicundus, is less sociable in Scotland than in Cornwall, but is genetically differentiated and genetically isolated too
2024-05-29
(Press-News.org) The sweat bee, H. rubicundus, is less sociable in Scotland than in Cornwall, but is genetically differentiated and genetically isolated too

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302688

Article Title: Genetic differentiation at extreme latitudes in the socially plastic sweat bee Halictus rubicundus

Author Countries: Netherlands, UK

Funding: This work is part of a project that received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Horizon's 202 research and innovation programme (grantagreement no. 695744). RAB was funded by a Wageningen Graduate School Postdoctoral Talent fellowship and a BBSRC discovery fellowship.

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