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SUBMITTER: Dos Santos AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4694643 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dos Santos Aline Borba AB do Nascimento Fábio Santos FS
PloS one 20151229 12
Recent studies have investigated the composition of compounds that cover the cuticle in social insects, but few studies have focused on solitary bees. Cuticular hydrocarbons may provide a tool for chemotaxonomy, and perhaps they can be used as a complement to morphology and genetic characters in phylogenetic studies. Orchid bees (Tribe Euglossini) are a highly diverse group of Neotropical bees with more than 200 species. Here, the cuticular hydrocarbons of 17 species were identified and statisti ...[more]