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Insect invasions and natural selection

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Observations of a real-time invasion of Australia by Asian honeybees demonstrate how natural selection can allow a small founding population to overcome the genetic odds stacked against success.

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Figure 1: Increased frequency of rare alleles by natural selection in an invasive bee population.

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