Investigating Apis mellifera Pollen Interhive and Seasonal Foraging Variation Using DNA Metabarcoding
The goal of this project is to employ metabarcoding using Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology for the longitudinal analysis of floral composition in corbicular pollen samples. Our analysis includes two primary components: tracking the temporal changes of a singlular hive's pollen foraging behavior over the course of five months and comparing the pollen diversity between two geograhically proximate hives.