Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut.

It is presently unclear how much individual community members contribute to the overall metabolic output of a gut microbiota. To address this question, we used the honey bee, which harbors a relatively simple and remarkably conserved gut microbiota with striking parallels to the mammalian system and...

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Main Authors: Lucie Kešnerová, Ruben A T Mars, Kirsten M Ellegaard, Michaël Troilo, Uwe Sauer, Philipp Engel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-12-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5726620?pdf=render