近日,从院国际合作局获悉,我所申报的国家外国专家局2015年度高端外国专家项目“中国熊蜂种质资源挖掘与利用”(项目编号:GDJ20150326001)获得资助,这是我所继去年获得高端专家项目后的又一次成功。本年度,中国农业科学院共有4个高端外国专家项目获得资助。
本项目引进专家,Paul H. Williams博士,男,英国人,1959年5月22日出生,1985年剑桥大学博士毕业,现为英国自然历史博物馆生命科学系研究员,Paul主要从事熊蜂分类、生物地理学与资源保护等方面的研究工作。1985年至今,发表论文150余篇,是目前全球最权威的熊蜂分类与保护专家,现为国际自然保护联盟-熊蜂专家组主席。
预计,Paul此次在华工作3个月时间,和安建东团队合作开展巨熊蜂亚属系统发育与区系特点、云贵高原熊蜂资源现状及其区系特点等方面的研究工作。
Paul自2007年以来已连续访华8次,目前为蜜蜂研究所客座研究员(2013-2018)。Paul在中国熊蜂分类、资源保护与评价方面给予蜜蜂所较大的帮助,已合作发表论文10篇,具体如下:
[1]安建东, 黄家兴, Williams PH, 吴杰, 周冰峰. 河北地区物种熊蜂多样性与蜂群繁育特性. 应用生态学报, 2010, 21(6): 1542-1550.
[2]Williams PH, An J, Huang J, Yao J. BBCI: A new initiative to document Chinese bumblebees for pollination research. Journal of Apicultural Research, 2010, 49(2): 221-222.
[3]An J, Williams PH, Zhou B, Miao Z, Qi W. The bumblebees of Gansu, Northwest China (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Zootaxa, 2011, 2865: 1-36.
[4]Williams PH, An J, Huang J. The bumblebees of the subgenus Subterraneobombus: integrating evidence from morphology and DNA barcodes (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 163, 813-862.
[5]Williams PH, An J, Brown M, Carolan J, Goulson D, Huang J and Ito M. Cryptic bumblebee species: consequences for conservation and the trade in greenhouse pollinators. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7(3): e32992.
[6]Williams PH, Brown MJF, Carolan JC, An J, Goulson D, Aytekin AM, et al. Unveiling cryptic species of the bumblebee subgenus Bombus s. str. world-wide with COI barcodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Systematics and Biodiversity, 2012, 10: 21-56.
[7]An J, Huang J, Shao Y, Zhang S, Wang B, Liu X, Wu J, and Williams PH. The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille). Zootaxa, 2014, 3830(1), 1-89.
[8]Williams PH, Bystriakova N, Huang J, Miao Z, An J. Bumblebees, climate, and glaciers across the Tibetan plateau (Apidae: Bombus Latreille). Systematics and Biodiversity, 2015, 13(2), 164-181.
[9]Huang J, Wu J, An J, Williams PH. Newly discovered colour-pattern polymorphism of Bombus koreanus females (Hymenoptera: Apidae) demonstrated by DNA barcoding. Apidologie, 2015, 46(2): 250-261.
[10]Zhang H, Huang J, Williams PH, Vaissière BE, Zhou Z, Gai Q, Dong J, An J. Managed bumblebees outperform honeybees in increasing peach fruit set in China: different limiting processes with different pollinators. PLoS ONE, 2015, 10(3): e0121143.