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Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

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Orbus sasakiae sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from the gut of the butterfly Sasakia charonda, and emended description of the genus Orbus

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

(2012) Nancy A. Moran et al.   PLoS One

Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

(2012) P. Engel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Bacterial Communities of Diverse Drosophila Species: Ecological Context of a Host–Microbe Model System

(2011) James Angus Chandler et al.   PLoS Genetics

Phylogeny of Gammaproteobacteria

(2010) K. P. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

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

(2010) VINCENT G. MARTINSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bifidobacteria in the digestive tract of bumblebees

(2009) Jiří Killer et al.   ANAEROBE

Orbus hercynius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from faeces of wild boar, is most closely related to members of the orders 'Enterobacteriales' and Pasteurellales

(2009) M. Volkmann et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Bacteria in the gut of Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica, and their antagonistic effect against Paenibacillus larvae, the causal agent of American foulbrood

(2009) Mikio Yoshiyama et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Detection and Identification of a Novel Lactic Acid Bacterial Flora Within the Honey Stomach of the Honeybee Apis mellifera

(2008) Tobias C. Olofsson et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

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

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