Systematics and Evolution of the Apoidea

Apoidea的系统学和进化

• 批准号: 8716817
• 负责人: Charles Michener
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-03-15 至 1993-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8716817&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Systematics; Evolution; Apoidea

Bees are the most important pollinating agent in the world, and their biology is of intense interest to agriculturists, the honey industry, behaviorists and investigators into social structures. Charles Michener is one of the world's leading authorities on bees, and he has proposed a five-year synthesis of the classification and ancestor-descendant relationships among the bees of the world. Michener is uniquely qualified to summarize the present understanding of the biology and evolution of bees since their probable divergence from wasps in the Mesozoic Era. In addition to producing a comprehensive classification of families and tribes, Michener will construct phylogenetic hypotheses using cladistic methods, and will formulate identification keys for non-specialists. The proposed project will bring our understanding of bee biology and evolution to a new level of completeness and clarity. It will serve as a foundation for pure and applied bee research for generations.

蜜蜂是世界上最重要的授粉媒介，其生物学引起了农学家、蜂蜜工业、行为学家和社会结构调查人员的浓厚兴趣。查尔斯·米切纳 (Charles Michener) 是世界蜜蜂研究的权威之一，他提出了一个为期五年的综合报告，对世界蜜蜂的分类和祖先-后代关系进行综合。米切纳具有独特的资格来总结目前对蜜蜂生物学和进化的理解，因为蜜蜂可能与中生代的黄蜂有所分歧。除了对科和部落进行全面的分类外，米切纳还将使用分支方法构建系统发育假设，并为非专业人士制定识别键。拟议的项目将使我们对蜜蜂生物学和进化的理解达到一个新的完整性和清晰度水平。它将作为世代纯粹和应用蜜蜂研究的基础。