micropalynology

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ palynology.

Noun

micropalynology (uncountable)

  1. The study of pollen traces
    • 2015 December 24, “Taxonomic Characterization of Honey Bee ( Apis mellifera ) Pollen Foraging Based on Non-Overlapping Paired-End Sequencing of Nuclear Ribosomal Loci”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      To date, comparisons of micropalynology and metagenetics indicate that the latter is effective in identifying pollen sources, but read counts may not be consistently related to visual counts.
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