Bumblebee genomics
Dnr:
NAISS 2023/22-640
Type:
NAISS Small Compute
Principal Investigator:
David Diez
Affiliation:
Stockholms universitet
Start Date:
2023-06-19
End Date:
2024-07-01
Primary Classification:
10609: Genetics (medical to be 30107 and agricultural to be 40402)
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Abstract
This is a FORMAS-funded project in which I aim to obtain and analyze the complete genomes of several hundred bumblebee specimens that had been collected throughout the last century. This will allow us to investigate how changes in agricultural practices in the last 150 years have affected the demography and genomic diversity of these pollinators, and whether they show signatures of adaptation to these changes at the genomic level.