A yellow-banded bumblebee is seen in a photo provided by York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 15, 2018. Victoria MacPhail/FES/York University/Handout via REUTERS
(Reuters) - Researchers in Canada playing detective with the yellow-banded bumblebee's genome have found evidence that inbreeding and disease are the likely reasons for the decline of the species, York University's Associate Professor Amro Zayed told Reuters.
The team led by Zayed, Sheila Colla and biology researcher Clement Kent believes it is the first time the genome of an at-risk bumblebee has been sequenced.
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