ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2021
Body mass and sex, not local climate, drive differences in chill coma recovery times in common garden reared bumble bees.
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- Phenotypic plasticity underlies seasonal and latitudinal variation in thermal tolerance in a native bee.Ecology · 2025Article
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- Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- It is buzziness time: rearing, mating, and overwintering Bombus vosnesenskii (Hymenoptera: Apidae).Journal of insect science (Online) · 2023Article
- Symptomatic Infection withAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- High thermal tolerance in high-elevation species and laboratory-reared colonies of tropical bumble bees.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Chill coma recovery of Ceratitis capitata adults across the Northern Hemisphere.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Neotropical stingless bees display a strong response in cold tolerance with changes in elevation.Conservation physiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The time required to recover from cold exposure (chill coma recovery time) may represent an important metric of performance and has been linked to geographic distributions of diverse species. Chill coma recovery time (CCRT) has rarely been measured in bumble bees (genus Bombus) but may provide insights regarding recent changes in their distributions. We measured CCRT of Bombus vosnesenskii workers reared in common garden laboratory conditions from queens collected across altitude and latitude in the Western United States. We also compared CCRTs of male and female bumble bees because males are often overlooked in studies of bumble bee ecology and physiology and may differ in their ability to respond to cold temperatures. We found no relationship between CCRT and local climate at the queen collection sites, but CCRT varied significantly with sex and body mass. Because differences in the ability to recover from cold temperatures have been shown in wild-caught Bombus, we predict that variability in CCRT may be strongly influenced by plasticity.
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