The Gut Microbiota Protects Bees from Invasion by a Bacterial Pathogen

The Gut Microbiota Protects Bees from Invasion by a Bacterial Pathogen

ABSTRACT Commensal microbes in animal guts often help to exclude bacterial pathogens. In honey bees, perturbing or depleting the gut microbiota increases host mortality rates upon challenge with the opportunistic pathogen Serratia marcescens, suggesting antagonism between S. marcescens and one or mo...

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Main Authors: Margaret I. Steele, Erick V. S. Motta, Tejashwini Gattu, Daniel Martinez, Nancy A. Moran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
Apis mellifera
Serratia marcescens
T6SS
colonization resistance
microbiota
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00394-21

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00394-21

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