Exosymbiotic microbes within fermented pollen provisions are as important for the development of solitary bees as the pollen itself
Abstract Developing bees derive significant benefits from the microbes present within their guts and fermenting pollen provisions. External microbial symbionts (exosymbionts) associated with larval diets may be particularly important for solitary bees that suffer reduced fitness when denied microbe‐...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022-04-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8788 |