Cryptic bumblebee species: Consequences for conservation and the trade in greenhouse pollinators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Williams, Paul H ^a   An, Jiandong ^b   Brown, Mark J F ^c,d   Carolan, James C ^d,e   Goulson, Dave ^f   Huang, Jiaxing ^b   Ito, Masao ^g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOMBUS HYPOCRITA; BOMBUS LANTSCHOUENSIS; BOMBUS MINSHANENSIS; BOMBUS PATAGIATUS; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS HYPOCRITA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BEES; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; GENETICS, POPULATION; JAPAN; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863229507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032992     Document Type: Article

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