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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">My name is Margarita Lopez-Uribe. I'm a graduate student at Cornell University in Bryan Danforth's Lab. For my PhD thesis I would like to study the genetics and population structure of Peponapis pruinosa across its current range in the US, Mexico and Canada. For this project, I need to sample populations of Peponapis pruinosa across North America. For the genetic analysis we need specimens of bees preserved in alcohol. Both males and females will work for our analysis. We would like to obtain 20-30 specimens per site, if possible.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">We would greatly appreciate your help in this project. We would like to know if any of you would be willing to collaborate with us on the sampling of the bees. If you are willing to help, please send me an email (<span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0000ff">mml82@cornell.edu</span>). I will ship vials of ethanol for collecting bees. We will cover the cost of return postage if necessary. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Thank you in advance for you time and help.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Sincerely,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Margarita M Lopez-Uribe</p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="Section1"><div>
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