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Nesting biology of allodapine bee Braunsapis picitarsis (Cameron) from South India
The Allodapine bee, Braunsapis picitarsis (Cameron) (Allodapini: Xylocopinae: Apidae) is polylectic and found to be an important pollinator for many agricultural and horticultural crops. As B. picitarsis was found to be cryptic to other species, the DNA barcoding was done to confirm the species identity. Their nesting sites were located at dried twigs of peacock flower tree, Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.), and a total of 83 nests were collected from 2019 to 2021. The bees preferred nesting sites with an entrance diameter of 2.83 0.06 mm with a nest length of 5.38 0.30 cm. The total development period was 56.85 0.84 days in the laboratory. Pupa exhibited difference in eye colour and body pigmentation during their development. DNA contigs. The contigs developed were analysed for the presence of stop codons using the software MEGA 7. The sequences generated from the study was analyzed for sequence homology using nucleotide BLASTn at NCBI and submitted to BankIt, GenBank for the generation of accession number. Details of the species were uploaded at Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD systems v4) to generate the barcodes.
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Current Science, published every fortnight by the Association, in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences, is the leading interdisciplinary science journal from India. It was started in 1932 by the then stalwarts of Indian science such as CV Raman, Birbal Sahni, Meghnad Saha, Martin Foster and S.S. Bhatnagar. In 2011, the journal completed one hundred volumes. The journal is intended as a medium for communication and discussion of important issues that concern science and scientific activities. Besides full length research articles and shorter research communications, the journal publishes review articles, scientific correspondence and commentaries, news and views, comments on recently published research papers, opinions on scientific activity, articles on universities, Indian laboratories and institutions, interviews with scientists, personal information, book reviews, etc. It is also a forum to discuss issues and problems faced by science and scientists and an effective medium of interaction among scientists in the country and abroad. Current Science is read by a large community of scientists and the circulation has been continuously going up.
Current Science publishes special sections on diverse and topical themes of interest and this has served as a platform for the scientific fraternity to get their work acknowledged and highlighted. Some of the special sections that have been well received in the recent past include remote sensing, waves and symmetry, seismology in India, nanomaterials, AIDS, Alzheimer''s disease, molecular biology of ageing, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, Indian monsoon, water, transport, and mountain weather forecasting in India, to name a few. Contributions to these special issues ‘which receive widespread attention’ are from leading scientists in India and abroad.