🐝🌺Dynamic pollinator networks maintain pollination efficiency during mast flowering in an insect-pollinated tree

📷 © Magdalena Żywiec

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#Bumblebee #MastSeeding #PollinationEfficiency #PollinatorNetworks #ReproductiveEfficiency #Sorbusaucuparia

💡 While current inbreeding levels appear too low to impact reproduction, higher inbreeding in smaller or artificially bred populations could have more serious consequences.

 #animalgenetics #reproductiveefficiency #horsereproduction #genomicresearch   #geneticdiversity

🐎 Horses produce just one #foal after an eleven-month pregnancy, making #reproductiveefficiency critical. Concerns about inbreeding (which can increase harmful #geneticvariants) led researchers to examine whether it impacts foaling rates in #AustralianThoroughbred #mares.