Estimation of bumblebee queen dispersal distances using sibship reconstruction method

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 819-831

  Lepais, Olivier ^a   Darvill, Ben ^a   O'Connor, Stephanie ^a   Osborne, Juliet L ^b   Sanderson, Roy A ^c   Cussans, John ^b   Goffe, Louis ^c   Goulson, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bombus; Kinship; Microsatellite; Population structure; Social insects

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BOMBUS LAPIDARIUS; BOMBUS PASCUORUM; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77749245927     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04500.x     Document Type: Article

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