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

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Towards an integrated understanding of gut microbiota using insects as model systems

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MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

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Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes

(2013) Jon G. Sanders et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

'Blooming' in the gut: how dysbiosis might contribute to pathogen evolution

(2013) Bärbel Stecher et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

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Frequent Replenishment Sustains the Beneficial Microbiome of Drosophila melanogaster

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High-Resolution Analysis of Gut Environment and Bacterial Microbiota Reveals Functional Compartmentation of the Gut in Wood-Feeding Higher Termites (Nasutitermes spp.)

(2012) Tim Köhler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances

(2012) Jun Chen et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Yersinia pestis infection and laboratory conditions alter flea-associated bacterial communities

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Knowing your friends: invertebrate innate immunity fosters beneficial bacterial symbioses

(2012) Spencer V. Nyholm et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Disruption of the Human Gut Microbiota following Norovirus Infection

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UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

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Toward the functional analysis of uncultivable, symbiotic microorganisms in the termite gut

(2011) Yuichi Hongoh   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

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

Diet Drives Convergence in Gut Microbiome Functions Across Mammalian Phylogeny and Within Humans

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Highlights of mycoplasma research—An historical perspective

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The midgut of Cephalotes ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae): Ultrastructure of the epithelium and symbiotic bacteria

(2010) Murillo L. Bution et al.   MICRON

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

A High-Throughput DNA Sequence Aligner for Microbial Ecology Studies

(2009) Patrick D. Schloss   PLoS One

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parasite‐Induced Fruit Mimicry in a Tropical Canopy Ant

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New Insights into Peritrophic Matrix Synthesis, Architecture, and Function

(2008) Dwayne Hegedus et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Characterization of a filamentous biofilm community established in a cellulose-fed microbial fuel cell

(2008) Shun'ichi Ishii et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

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(2008) Scott Powell   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Analogies in the evolution of individual and social immunity

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