Apibacter mensalis sp. nov.: a rare member of the bumblebee gut microbiota

Apibacter adventoris gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from honey bees

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Novel lactic acid bacteria isolated from the bumble bee gut: Convivina intestini gen. nov., sp. nov., Lactobacillus bombicola sp. nov., and Weissella bombi sp. nov.

(2015) Jessy Praet et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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

Towards a taxonomic coherence between average nucleotide identity and 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity for species demarcation of prokaryotes

(2014) M. Kim et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Variation in gut microbial communities and its association with pathogen infection in wild bumble bees (Bombus)

(2014) Daniel P Cariveau et al.   ISME Journal

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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Effects of Invasive Parasites on Bumble Bee Declines

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Evaluation of MALDI-TOF MS as a tool for high-throughput dereplication

(2011) Jonas Ghyselinck et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

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

(2011) Hauke Koch et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

Bifidobacterium actinocoloniiforme sp. nov. and Bifidobacterium bohemicum sp. nov., from the bumblebee digestive tract

(2010) J. Killer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data

(2010) S. Gnerre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bombiscardovia coagulans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of bumblebees

(2010) J. Killer et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Bifidobacterium bombi sp. nov., from the bumblebee digestive tract

(2009) J. Killer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

(2008) Ramy K Aziz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline

(2008) Nicola Gallai et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

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