Bee genes tell a tale of climate change

Although thousands of miles from the ice-sheets of Europe, the genetic record of bee species in the islands of the South Pacific carries evidence of the dramatic global effects of climate change over the past 20,000 years.

Research by Flinders University biology PhD student Scott Groom investigating the history of genetic diversity and population size in bee species across Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa has been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The research was a collaboration with Dr Mark Stevens of the South Australian Museum, with funding from the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation.

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Source: Phys.org