Extreme Food-Plant Specialisation in Megabombus Bumblebees as a Product of Long Tongues Combined with Short Nesting Seasons

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Jiaxing Huang,

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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Jiandong An ,

* E-mail: anjiandong@caas.cn (JA); apis@vip.sina.com (JW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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Jie Wu ,

* E-mail: anjiandong@caas.cn (JA); apis@vip.sina.com (JW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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Paul H. Williams

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100093, China, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
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