Conservation Genomics of the Declining North American Bumblebee Bombus terricola Reveals Inbreeding and Selection on Immune Genes

Conservation Genomics of the Declining North American Bumblebee Bombus terricola Reveals Inbreeding and Selection on Immune Genes

The yellow-banded bumblebee Bombus terricola was common in North America but has recently declined and is now on the IUCN Red List of threatened species. The causes of B. terricola’s decline are not well understood. Our objectives were to create a partial genome and then use this to estimate populat...

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Main Authors: Clement F. Kent, Alivia Dey, Harshilkumar Patel, Nadejda Tsvetkov, Tanushree Tiwari, Victoria J. MacPhail, Yann Gobeil, Brock A. Harpur, James Gurtowski, Michael C. Schatz, Sheila R. Colla, Amro Zayed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
Subjects:
Bombus
bumblebee
conservation
inbreeding
pathogen
genomics
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2018.00316/full

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