Deep Sequencing and Ecological Characterization of Gut Microbial Communities of Diverse Bumble Bee Species

Rapid ecological replacement of a native bumble bee by invasive species

(2013) Carolina L Morales et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Diversity and evolutionary patterns of bacterial gut associates of corbiculate bees

(2013) Hauke Koch et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Do Honeybees Shape the Bacterial Community Composition in Floral Nectar?

(2013) Yana Aizenberg-Gershtein et al.   PLoS One

Genetic Variability of the Neogregarine Apicystis bombi, an Etiological Agent of an Emergent Bumblebee Disease

(2013) Jafar Maharramov et al.   PLoS One

Microbial Ecology of the Hive and Pollination Landscape: Bacterial Associates from Floral Nectar, the Alimentary Tract and Stored Food of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

(2013) Kirk E. Anderson et al.   PLoS One

Honey constituents up-regulate detoxification and immunity genes in the western honey bee Apis mellifera

(2013) W. Mao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unexpected Diversity during Community Succession in the Apple Flower Microbiome

(2013) A. Shade et al.   mBio

Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

(2012) Vincent G. Martinson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Alien parasite hitchhikes to Patagonia on invasive bumblebee

(2012) Marina P. Arbetman et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

The effect of training set on the classification of honey bee gut microbiota using the Naïve Bayesian Classifier

(2012) Irene LG Newton et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

(2012) Hauke Koch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: description of Snodgrassella alvi gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Neisseriaceae of the Betaproteobacteria, and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the order 'Enterobacteriales' of the Gammaproteobacteria

(2012) W. K. Kwong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Ecological effects on gut bacterial communities in wild bumblebee colonies

(2012) Hauke Koch et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Environment or kin: whence do bees obtain acidophilic bacteria?

(2012) QUINN S. McFREDERICK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbionts as Major Modulators of Insect Health: Lactic Acid Bacteria and Honeybees

(2012) Alejandra Vásquez et al.   PLoS One

Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

(2012) P. Engel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production

(2012) P. R. Whitehorn et al.   SCIENCE

A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees

(2012) M. Henry et al.   SCIENCE

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Infection-Induced Interaction between the Mosquito Circulatory and Immune Systems

(2012) Jonas G. King et al.   PLoS Pathogens

An emerging paradigm of colony health: microbial balance of the honey bee and hive (Apis mellifera)

(2011) K. E. Anderson et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Bacterial Communities in Central European Bumblebees: Low Diversity and High Specificity

(2011) Hauke Koch et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

(2011) S. A. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

(2011) H. Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial communities in floral nectar

(2011) Svetlana Fridman et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Why bacteria matter in animal development and evolution

(2010) Sebastian Fraune et al.   BIOESSAYS

Fructobacillus tropaeoli sp. nov., a fructophilic lactic acid bacterium isolated from a flower

(2010) A. Endo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of 61 Sequenced Escherichia coli Genomes

(2010) Oksana Lukjancenko et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees

(2010) VINCENT G. MARTINSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases

(2010) Leho Tedersoo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Iridovirus and Microsporidian Linked to Honey Bee Colony Decline

(2010) Jerry J. Bromenshenk et al.   PLoS One

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The conservation of bees: a global perspective

(2009) Mark J.F. Brown et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Novel lactic acid bacteria inhibitingPaenibacillus larvaein honey bee larvae

(2009) Eva Forsgren et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

T-REX: software for the processing and analysis of T-RFLP data

(2009) Steven W Culman et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Interactions betweenNosemamicrospores and a neonicotinoid weaken honeybees (Apis mellifera)

(2009) Cédric Alaux et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The lactic acid bacteria involved in the production of bee pollen and bee bread

(2009) Alejandra Vásquez et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

American Foulbrood in honeybees and its causative agent, Paenibacillus larvae

(2009) Elke Genersch   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Conservative Fragments in Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes and Primer Design for 16S Ribosomal DNA Amplicons in Metagenomic Studies

(2009) Yong Wang et al.   PLoS One

Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest

(2008) Jennifer C. Grixti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

RNAalifold: improved consensus structure prediction for RNA alignments

(2008) Stephan H Bernhart et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS