Using DNA metabarcoding to identify the floral composition of honey: A new tool for investigating honey bee foraging preferences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Hawkins, Jennifer ^a,b   De Vere, Natasha ^a,c   Griffith, Adelaide ^a   Ford, Col R ^a   Allainguillaume, Joel ^d   Hegarty, Matthew J ^c   Baillie, Les ^b   Adams Groom, Beverley ^e  

^a National Botanic Garden of Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BLACKBERRY; BRASSICA; CASTANEA SATIVA; CLOVER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRATAEGUS MONOGYNA; DNA BARCODING; FILIPENDULA; FILIPENDULA ULMARIA; FLORAL COMPOSITION; FLOWER; FOOD COMPOSITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEY; HONEYBEE; IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS GLANDULIFERA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALUS; MELISSOPALYNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OAK; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT TAXONOMY; POLLEN ANALYSIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PYROSEQUENCING; RBCL GENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE; UNITED KINGDOM; WILLOW; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; POLLEN;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FLOWERS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HONEY; POLLEN; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84943229982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134735     Document Type: Article

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