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. 2023 Apr 18;120(16):e2303921120.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2303921120. Epub 2023 Apr 10.

Monoculture is good if you are a squash bee

Amro Zayed  1
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Monoculture is good if you are a squash bee

Amro Zayed. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
A male squash bee, covered in pollen, on a zucchini blossom. In this issue, Pope et al. show that the rise of squash agriculture has shaped the evolution of squash bees over the past thousand years. Photo by Amro Zayed.
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