Males of many bumblebee species exhibit a conspicuous pre-mating behavior with two
distinct behavioral components: scent marking and patrol flying. The marking pheromone is …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are a broad group of gram-positive bacteria that have actively
been used worldwide in food productions due to their nutritional, technological …

Bumble bees are an outstanding model system in which to study the organization and
evolution of complex social behaviour. Bumble bees pass through several distinct phases …

Sordariomycetes is an earlier-introduced and one of the widely distributed class of
Ascomycota. The class was initially classified based on morphology in having inoperculate …

Mass produced colonies of the Eurasian bumble bee, Bombus terrestris L., have been used
in Europe for over 30 years for the pollination of horticultural crops. In recent years, the …

Brisingida Fisher 1928 is one of the seven currently recognised starfish orders, and one of
the least known taxa as being exclusive deep-sea inhabitants. Modern deep-sea …

Fungal infections are being caused by a broadening spectrum of fungi, yet in many cases,
identification to the species level is required for proper antifungal selection. We investigated …

Cold‐adapted species are expected to have reached their largest distribution range during a
part of the Ice Ages whereas postglacial warming has led to their range contracting toward …

Abstract Background The Pleistocene climatic oscillations are considered as a major driving
force of intraspecific divergence and speciation. During Ice Ages, populations isolated in …

Delimitation of closely related species is often hindered by the lack of discrete diagnostic
morphological characters. This is exemplified in bumblebees (genus Bombus). There have …