Unbiased RNA Shotgun Metagenomics in Social and Solitary Wild Bees Detects Associations with Eukaryote Parasites and New Viruses

Varroa destructor Macula-like virus, Lake Sinai virus and other new RNA viruses in wild bumblebee hosts ( Bombus pascuorum , Bombus lapidarius and Bombus pratorum )

(2016) Laurian Parmentier et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Plasticity in the gut microbial community and uptake of Enterobacteriaceae (Gammaproteobacteria) in Bombus terrestris bumblebees’ nests when reared indoors and moved to an outdoor environment

(2015) Laurian Parmentier et al.   APIDOLOGIE

A sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and managed bees

(2015) Dino P. McMahon et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Tubulinosema pampeana sp. n. (Microsporidia, Tubulinosematidae), a pathogen of the South American bumble bee Bombus atratus

(2015) Santiago Plischuk et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Diverse Array of New Viral Sequences Identified in Worldwide Populations of the Asian Citrus Psyllid (Diaphorina citri) Using Viral Metagenomics

(2015) Shahideh Nouri et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Divergent Viruses Discovered in Arthropods and Vertebrates Revise the Evolutionary History of the Flaviviridae and Related Viruses

(2015) Mang Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing Demonstrates that Indoor-Reared Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) Harbor a Core Subset of Bacteria Normally Associated with the Wild Host

(2015) Ivan Meeus et al.   PLoS One

Live imaging of baculovirus infection of midgut epithelium cells: a functional assay of per os infectivity factors

(2014) J. Mu et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Widespread occurrence of honey bee pathogens in solitary bees

(2014) Jorgen Ravoet et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Discovery and Evolution of Bunyavirids in Arctic Phantom Midges and Ancient Bunyavirid-Like Sequences in Insect Genomes

(2014) M. J. Ballinger et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

TCS: A New Multiple Sequence Alignment Reliability Measure to Estimate Alignment Accuracy and Improve Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction

(2014) Jia-Ming Chang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

(2014) Benjamin Buchfink et al.   NATURE METHODS

Characterization of the 18S rRNA Gene for Designing Universal Eukaryote Specific Primers

(2014) Kenan Hadziavdic et al.   PLoS One

Odorant-binding proteins and olfactory coding in the solitary bee Osmia cornuta

(2013) Xue-Wei Yin et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Standard methods for virus research inApis mellifera

(2013) Joachim R de Miranda et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Bee pollination improves crop quality, shelf life and commercial value

(2013) B. K. Klatt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Microsatellite analysis in museum samples reveals inbreeding before the regression of Bombus veteranus

(2012) Kevin Maebe et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Distribution of Chaetodactylus krombeini (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) within Osmia cornifrons (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) nests: implications for population management

(2012) Matthew I. McKinney et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Negevirus: a Proposed New Taxon of Insect-Specific Viruses with Wide Geographic Distribution

(2012) N. Vasilakis et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Polydnaviruses as Symbionts and Gene Delivery Systems

(2012) Michael R. Strand et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Host range expansion of honey bee Black Queen Cell Virus in the bumble bee, Bombus huntii

(2011) Wenjun Peng et al.   APIDOLOGIE

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The good viruses: viral mutualistic symbioses

(2011) Marilyn J. Roossinck   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?

(2011) Jeff Ollerton et al.   OIKOS

The genome of Oryctes rhinoceros nudivirus provides novel insight into the evolution of nuclear arthropod-specific large circular double-stranded DNA viruses

(2011) Yongjie Wang et al.   VIRUS GENES

RNA Viruses in Hymenopteran Pollinators: Evidence of Inter-Taxa Virus Transmission via Pollen and Potential Impact on Non-Apis Hymenopteran Species

(2010) Rajwinder Singh et al.   PLoS One

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

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

Assessment of Potential Fumigants to Control Chaetodactylus krombeini (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) Associated With Osmia cornifrons (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

(2009) Joseph B. White et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular characterisation and phylogenetic analysis of Chronic bee paralysis virus, a honey bee virus

(2008) Violaine Olivier et al.   VIRUS RESEARCH

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

(2007) D. Goulson et al.   Annual Review of Entomology