| invasion success of the bumblebee, bombus terrestris, despite a drastic genetic bottleneck. | in early 1992, the european bumblebee, bombus terrestris, was first seen in tasmania and currently has spread to most of the island. here, we report on the genetic structure, using micro-satellites, of the invading population from samples collected in the years 1998-2000, a few years after the first sighting of the species in its new area. the data show that the tasmanian population has a very low genetic diversity, with less than half of the allelic richness (richness=2.89 alleles; h(exp)=0.591 ... | 2007 | 17551520 |