Apidologie

Vol. 39 No. 1 (January-February 2008)

Special Issue: Insights into Bee Evolution: A Tribute to Charles D. Michener

Editorial
• Insights into Bee Evolution: A Tribute to Charles D. Michener     p. 1
  Bryan N. Danforth and Eduardo A.B. Almeida
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• Phylogenetics of allodapine bees: a review of social evolution, parasitism and biogeography     p. 3
  Simon M. Tierney, Jaclyn A. Smith, Luke Chenoweth and Michael P. Schwarz
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• Colletidae nesting biology (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)     p. 16
  Eduardo A.B. Almeida
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• Components of nest provisioning behavior in solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)     p. 30
  John L. Neff
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• A simplified subgeneric classification of the bumblebees (genus Bombus)     p. 46
  Paul H. Williams, Sydney A. Cameron, Heather M. Hines, Bjorn Cederberg and Pierre Rasmont
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• Phylogeny of the Xeromelissinae (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) Based upon Morphology and Molecules     p. 75
  Eduardo A.B. Almeida, Laurence Packer and Bryan N. Danforth
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• Phylogeny of Halictidae with an emphasis on endemic African Halictinae     p. 86
  Bryan N. Danforth, Connal Eardley, Laurence Packer, Kenneth Walker, Alain Pauly and Fano José Randrianambinintsoa
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• A molecular phylogeny and the evolution of nest architecture and behavior in Trigona s.s. (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)     p. 102
  Claus Rasmussen and João M.F. Camargo
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• Correlated evolution of mating behaviour and morphology in large carpenter bees (Xylocopa)     p. 119
  Remko Leys and Katja Hogendoorn
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• The evolution of a pollen diet: Host choice and diet breadth of Andrena bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)     p. 133
  Leah L. Larkin, John L. Neff and Beryl B. Simpson
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• Phylogeny and host-plant evolution in Melittidae s.l. (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)     p. 146
  Denis Michez, Sébastien Patiny, Pierre Rasmont, Kim Timmermann and Nicolas J. Vereecken
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• Phylogenetic analysis of the corbiculate bee tribes based on 12 nuclear protein-coding genes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae)     p. 163
  Atsushi Kawakita, John S. Ascher, Teiji Sota, Makoto Kato and David W. Roubik
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• Faunal composition and species richness differences of bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) from two north American regions     p. 176
  Robert Minckley
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• The biology of a Patellapis (s. str.) species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae): sociality described for the first time in this bee genus     p. 189
  Kim Timmermann and Michael Kuhlmann
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