Distinctive gut microbiota of honey bees assessed using deep sampling from individual worker bees.

Surveys of 16S rDNA sequences from the honey bee, Apis mellifera, have revealed the presence of eight distinctive bacterial phylotypes in intestinal tracts of adult worker bees. Because previous studies have been limited to relatively few sequences from samples pooled from multiple hosts, the extent...

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Main Authors: Nancy A Moran, Allison K Hansen, J Elijah Powell, Zakee L Sabree
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3338667?pdf=render