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Wiley Open Access, Applications in Plant Sciences, 1(3), p. 1400066, 2015

DOI: 10.3732/apps.1400066

Harvard University Herbaria, Harvard Papers in Botany, 1(21), p. 1-3

DOI: 10.3100/hpib.v21iss1.2016.n1

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

Journal article published in 2015 by Rodney T. Richardson, Chia‐Hua Lin, Douglas B. Sponsler ORCID, Juan O. Quijia, Karen Goodell, Reed M. Johnson
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Abstract

• Premise of the study: Melissopalynology, the identification of bee-collected pollen, provides insight into the flowers exploited by foraging bees. Information provided by melissopalynology could guide floral enrichment efforts aimed at supporting pollinators, but it has rarely been used because traditional methods of pollen identification are laborious and require expert knowledge. We approach melissopalynology in a novel way, employing a molecular method to study the pollen foraging of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in a landscape dominated by field crops, and compare these results to those obtained by microscopic melissopalynology.