The expansion of agriculture has shaped the recent evolutionary history of a specialized squash pollinator.

ABSTRACT: The expansion of agriculture is responsible for the mass conversion of biologically diverse natural environments into managed agroecosystems dominated by a handful of genetically homogeneous crop species. Agricultural ecosystems typically have very different abiotic and ecological conditions from those they replaced and create potential niches for those species that are able to exploit the abundant resources offered by crop plants. While there are well-studied examples of crop pests that have adapted into novel agricultural niches, the impact of agricultural intensification on the evolution of crop mutualists such as pollinators is poorly understood. We combined genealogical inference from genomic data with archaeological records to demonstrate that the Holocene demographic history of a wi

SUBMITTER: Pope NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10104555 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature