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Specialisation in pollen collection, pollination interactions and phenotypic variation of the oil-collecting bee Chalepogenus cocuccii
- Source :
- Apidologie, Apidologie, 2020, 51 (5), pp.710-723. ⟨10.1007/s13592-020-00755-4⟩, CONICET Digital (CONICET), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, instacron:CONICET
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Bee pollen gathering from a few related plant species is a specialisation known as oligolecty. Although it is an extended phenomenon, it has been scarcely explored in oil-collecting bees. At the geographic level, there is little information about oligolecty persistence and also about phenotypic variation of bees related with abiotic factors. We studied the pollen collection specialisation of the oil-collecting bee Chalepogenus cocuccii , its pollination interactions and phenotypic variation across its distribution range, by analyses of pollen loads, field observations and morphometric measurements. Observations and pollen analyses showed that across its distribution range, C. cocuccii preferred Nierembergia flowers not only for oil but also for pollen. We found two beemorphotypes, though phenotypic variation was not related to abiotic variables. We postulate that C. cocuccii is a narrowly oligolectic species, phenotypically and ecologically specialised in Nierembergia. Fil: Maubecin, Constanza Clara. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina Fil: Boero, María Lourdes. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina Fil: Sersic, Alicia Noemi. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Entomology
OIL-COLLECTING BEES
Pollination
Range (biology)
Zoology
pollination interactions
medicine.disease_cause
Oligolecty
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Ciencias Biológicas
purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https]
Pollen
Nierembergia
medicine
purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6 [https]
OLIGOLECTY
Abiotic component
biology
specialisation
phenotypic variation
Ecología
POLLINATION INTERACTIONS
15. Life on land
SPECIALISATION
biology.organism_classification
[SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology
010602 entomology
oil-collecting bees
Insect Science
Bee pollen
PHENOTYPIC VARIATION
CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
oligolecty
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 12979678 and 00448435
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Apidologie
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9e7ce2d01997d8b04bc02eef5ad6c2fd