Pollen DNA barcoding: current applications and future prospects

KL Bell, N De Vere, A Keller, RT Richardson, A Gous… - …, 2016‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Identification of the species origin of pollen has many applications, including assessment of
plant–pollinator networks, reconstruction of ancient plant communities, product …

The Honey Bee Apis mellifera: An Insect at the Interface between Human and Ecosystem Health

G Papa, R Maier, A Durazzo, M Lucarini, IK Karabagias… - Biology, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Apis mellifera Linnaeus (1758), a honey bee, is a eusocial insect widely
known for its role in pollination, an essential ecosystem service for plant biodiversity, and …

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

J Hawkins, N De Vere, A Griffith, CR Ford… - PloS one, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Identifying the floral composition of honey provides a method for investigating the plants that
honey bees visit. We compared melissopalynology, where pollen grains retrieved from …

Application of ITS2 metabarcoding to determine the provenance of pollen collected by honey bees in an agroecosystem

RT Richardson, CH Lin, DB Sponsler… - Applications in plant …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Melissopalynology, the identification of bee‐collected pollen,
provides insight into the flowers exploited by foraging bees. Information provided by …

Increased efficiency in identifying mixed pollen samples by meta-barcoding with a dual-indexing approach

W Sickel, MJ Ankenbrand, G Grimmer, A Holzschuh… - BMC ecology, 2015‏ - Springer
Background Meta-barcoding of mixed pollen samples constitutes a suitable alternative to
conventional pollen identification via light microscopy. Current approaches however have …

Quantitative and qualitative assessment of pollen DNA metabarcoding using constructed species mixtures

KL Bell, KS Burgess, JC Botsch, EK Dobbs… - Molecular …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Pollen DNA metabarcoding—marker‐based genetic identification of potentially mixed‐
species pollen samples—has applications across a variety of fields. While basic species …

Using metabarcoding to reveal and quantify plant-pollinator interactions

A Pornon, N Escaravage, M Burrus, H Holota… - Scientific reports, 2016‏ - nature.com
Given the ongoing decline of both pollinators and plants, it is crucial to implement effective
methods to describe complex pollination networks across time and space in a …

Rapid identification of the botanical and entomological sources of honey using DNA metabarcoding

SWJ Prosser, PDN Hebert - Food Chemistry, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Honey is generated by various bee species from diverse plants, and because the value of
different types of honey varies more than 100-fold, it is a target for fraud. This paper …

Pollen nutrition fosters honeybee tolerance to pesticides

L Barascou, D Sene, A Barraud… - Royal Society …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A reduction in floral resource abundance and diversity is generally observed in agro-
ecosystems, along with widespread exposure to pesticides. Therefore, a better …

Biomonitoring for the 21st century: integrating next-generation sequencing into ecological network analysis

SAP Derocles, DA Bohan, AJ Dumbrell… - Advances in ecological …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Ecological network analysis (ENA) provides a mechanistic framework for describing
complex species interactions, quantifying ecosystem services, and examining the impacts of …