Hidden diversity in honey bee gut symbionts detected by single-cell genomics.

Microbial communities in animal guts are composed of diverse, specialized bacterial species, but little is known about how gut bacteria diversify to produce genetically and ecologically distinct entities. The gut microbiota of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, presents a useful model, because it consis...

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Main Authors: Philipp Engel, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Nancy A Moran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-09-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4161309?pdf=render