Taxonomic characterization of honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollen foraging based on non-overlapping paired-end sequencing of nuclear ribosomal loci

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Cornman, R Scott ^a   Otto, Clint R V ^b   Iwanowicz, Deborah ^b   Pettis, Jeffery S ^c  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; APIS MELLIFERA; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ERROR; FORAGING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENUS; HONEYBEE; IDENTITY; MACHINE; PHENOLOGY; REFERENCE DATABASE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

PLANT DNA;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA, PLANT; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84956958206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145365     Document Type: Article

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