Early Queen Development in Honey Bees: Social Context and Queen Breeder Source Affect Gut Microbiota and Associated Metabolism
ABSTRACT The highly social honey bee has dense populations but a significantly reduced repertoire of immune genes relative to solitary species, suggesting a greater reliance on social immunity. Here we investigate immune gene expression and gut microbial succession in queens during colony introducti...
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| 語言: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2022-08-01
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| 叢編: | Microbiology Spectrum |
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| 在線閱讀: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00383-22 |