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Whole genome analyses reveal weak signatures of population structure and environmentally associated local adaptation in an important North American pollinator, the bumble bee Bombus vosnesenskii
Sam H Heraghty, Jeffrey D Lozier, Jason M Jackson bioRxiv 2023.03.06.531366; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.06.531366 A bit late but I'm currently trying to update the website and get everyone's papers updated! Sam recently published one of his dissertation chapters which is a cool look at whole genome variation linked to environmental variation across the B. vancouverensis range. Sam has a similar paper being submitted soon looking at a somewhat codistributed species Bombus vosnesenskii.  Sam D Heraghty, Sarthok Rasique Rahman, Jason M Jackson, Jeffrey D Lozier, Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals the Structure of Environment-Associated Divergence in a Broadly Distributed Montane Bumble Bee, Bombus vancouverensis, Insect Systematics and Diversity, Volume 6, Issue 5, September 2022, 5, https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac025 We also published a followup study to look at how historical climate and range fluctuations shaped fluctuations in effective population size in B. vancouverensis to shape latitudinal gradients in diversity in this species. This is a cool example of linking ecological niche models to historical inferences from genome data using coalescent models to look at range-population size dynamics over time.  Lozier, J. D., Strange, J. P., & Heraghty, S. D. (2023). Whole genome demographic models indicate divergent effective population size histories shape contemporary genetic diversity gradients in a montane bumble bee. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e9778. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9778
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