The genetic basis of mimicry in the snowy bumble bee (Bombus niveatus) in Anatolia with insights from a color polymorphic gynandromorph

• Tunç Dabak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3920-4698

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• Çiğdem Özenirler,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0390-2416

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• Ece Kamalak,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8593-5844

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• Cecil Smith,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Seçil Aytekin,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

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• Ahmet Murat Aytekin,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1630-4765

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• Heather M. Hines

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hmh19@psu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0299-5569

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