Carpenter Bees ( Xylocopa ) Harbor a Distinctive Gut Microbiome Related to That of Honey Bees and Bumble Bees

Acinetobacter pollinis sp. nov., Acinetobacter baretiae sp. nov. and Acinetobacter rathckeae sp. nov., isolated from floral nectar and honey bees

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Extinction of anciently associated gut bacterial symbionts in a clade of stingless bees

(2021) Alan Emanuel Silva Cerqueira et al.   ISME Journal

Social consequences of energetically costly nest construction in a facultatively social bee

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The Gut Microbiota Protects Bees from Invasion by a Bacterial Pathogen

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Competition Drives Group Formation and Reduces Within Nest Relatedness in a Facultatively Social Carpenter Bee

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A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae

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Bacterial Communities in Three Parts of Intestinal Tracts of Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa tenuiscapa)

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Entomomonas moraniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Pseudomonadaceae isolated from Asian honey bee gut, possesses a highly reduced genome

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Drivers, Diversity, and Functions of the Solitary-Bee Microbiota

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Linking pollen foraging of megachilid bees to their nest bacterial microbiota

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Bifidobacterium xylocopae sp. nov. and Bifidobacterium aemilianum sp. nov., from the carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) digestive tract

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ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

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Honeybee gut microbiota promotes host weight gain via bacterial metabolism and hormonal signaling

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Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut

(2017) Lucie Kešnerová et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Dynamic microbiome evolution in social bees

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

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Flowers and Wild Megachilid Bees Share Microbes

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Routes of Acquisition of the Gut Microbiota of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera

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Host species and developmental stage, but not host social structure, affects bacterial community structure in socially polymorphic bees

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IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts

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Frischella perrara gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from the gut of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

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Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

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

Neokomagataeagen. nov., with Descriptions ofNeokomagataea thailandicasp. nov. andNeokomagataea tanensissp. nov., Osmotolerant Acetic Acid Bacteria of the α-Proteobacteria

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Colony Social Organisation and Alternative Social Strategies in the Eastern Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica

(2011) Miriam H. Richards   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Social polymorphism in the Australian small carpenter bee, Ceratina (Neoceratina) australensis

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Comprehensive phylogeny of apid bees reveals the evolutionary origins and antiquity of cleptoparasitism

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

Arsenophonus, an emerging clade of intracellular symbionts with a broad host distribution

(2009) Eva Nováková et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

(2009) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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