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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

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

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Halictus entering nest (female bee in a nest aggregation entering her nest).

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Credit: Rebecca A. Boulton, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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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