Bee and non-bee pollinator importance for local food security

F Requier, N Pérez-Méndez, GKS Andersson… - Trends in ecology & …, 2023‏ - cell.com
Pollinators are critical for food security; however, their contribution to the pollination of locally
important crops is still unclear, especially for non-bee pollinators. We reviewed the diversity …

Pollinator diversity: distribution, ecological function, and conservation

J Ollerton - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
By facilitating plant reproduction, pollinators perform a crucial ecological function that
supports the majority of the world's plant diversity, and associated organisms, and a …

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

B Misof, S Liu, K Meusemann, RS Peters, A Donath… - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many
major lineages remain unresolved. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 protein …

Risks of large-scale use of systemic insecticides to ecosystem functioning and services

M Chagnon, D Kreutzweiser, EAD Mitchell… - … science and pollution …, 2015‏ - Springer
Large-scale use of the persistent and potent neonicotinoid and fipronil insecticides has
raised concerns about risks to ecosystem functions provided by a wide range of species and …

A quantitative review of pollination syndromes: do floral traits predict effective pollinators?

V Rosas‐Guerrero, R Aguilar… - Ecology …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
The idea of pollination syndromes has been largely discussed but no formal quantitative
evaluation has yet been conducted across angiosperms. We present the first systematic …

A total-evidence approach to dating with fossils, applied to the early radiation of the Hymenoptera

F Ronquist, S Klopfstein, L Vilhelmsen… - Systematic …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Phylogenies are usually dated by calibrating interior nodes against the fossil record. This
relies on indirect methods that, in the worst case, misrepresent the fossil information. Here …

Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities?

DR Colman, EC Toolson… - Molecular …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many insects contain diverse gut microbial communities. While several studies have focused
on a single or small group of species, comparative studies of phylogenetically diverse hosts …

Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees

M Sann, O Niehuis, RS Peters, C Mayer… - BMC evolutionary …, 2018‏ - Springer
Background Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically
diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial …

A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees

VG Martinson, BN Danforth, RL Minckley… - Molecular …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Specialized relationships with bacteria often allow animals to exploit a new diet by providing
a novel set of metabolic capabilities. Bees are a monophyletic group of Hymenoptera that …

Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the mining bee family Andrenidae

S Bossert, TJ Wood, S Patiny, D Michez… - Systematic …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The mining bees (Andrenidae) are a major bee family of over 3000 described species with a
nearly global distribution. They are a particularly significant component of northern …