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A national survey of managed honey bee 2015–2016 annual colony losses in the USA

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A national survey of managed honey bee 2014–2015 annual colony losses in the USA

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The effects of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queen reproductive potential on colony growth

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Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

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Pyrosequencing analysis of the bacterial communities in the guts of honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera in Korea

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Environment or kin: whence do bees obtain acidophilic bacteria?

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The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

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Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees

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Idiopathic brood disease syndrome and queen events as precursors of colony mortality in migratory beekeeping operations in the eastern United States

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T-RFLP analysis of bacterial communities in the midguts of Apis mellifera and Apis cerana honey bees in Thailand

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Cooperation, Conflict, and the Evolution of Queen Pheromones

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Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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Queen reproductive state modulates pheromone production and queen-worker interactions in honeybees

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Socialized medicine: Individual and communal disease barriers in honey bees

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Lactobacillus phylogenomics - towards a reclassification of the genus

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A Survey of Honey Bee Colony Losses in the U.S., Fall 2007 to Spring 2008

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Primer Pheromones in Social Hymenoptera

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