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

Specificity between Lactobacilli and Hymenopteran Hosts Is the Exception Rather than the Rule

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Response diversity to land use occurs but does not consistently stabilise ecosystem services provided by native pollinators

(2013) Daniel P. Cariveau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The inconstant gut microbiota of Drosophila species revealed by 16S rRNA gene analysis

(2013) Adam C-N Wong et al.   ISME Journal

Diversity and evolutionary patterns of bacterial gut associates of corbiculate bees

(2013) Hauke Koch et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Impact of Environmental Heterogeneity and Life Stage on the Hindgut Microbiota of Holotrichia parallela Larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2013) Shengwei Huang et al.   PLoS One

Crop Pollination Exposes Honey Bees to Pesticides Which Alters Their Susceptibility to the Gut Pathogen Nosema ceranae

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Microbial Gut Diversity of Africanized and European Honey Bee Larval Instars

(2013) Svjetlana Vojvodic et al.   PLoS One

Neonicotinoid clothianidin adversely affects insect immunity and promotes replication of a viral pathogen in honey bees

(2013) G. Di Prisco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

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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

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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Ecological effects on gut bacterial communities in wild bumblebee colonies

(2012) Hauke Koch et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species

(2012) KIRK E. ANDERSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Environment or kin: whence do bees obtain acidophilic bacteria?

(2012) QUINN S. McFREDERICK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Geographical and ecological stability of the symbiotic mid-gut microbiota in European firebugs,Pyrrhocoris apterus(Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

(2012) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Impact of the Resident Microbiota on the Nutritional Phenotype of Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Emma V. Ridley et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

(2012) Y. Kikuchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production

(2012) P. R. Whitehorn et al.   SCIENCE

Diversity of Nosema associated with bumblebees (Bombus spp.) from China

(2011) Jilian Li et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Gut microbiome dysbiosis and honeybee health

(2011) C. Hamdi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Interspecific geographic distribution and variation of the pathogens Nosema bombi and Crithidia species in United States bumble bee populations

(2011) Nils Cordes et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

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

(2011) Hauke Koch et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Comparative analysis of detection limits and specificity of molecular diagnostic markers for three pathogens (Microsporidia, Nosema spp.) in the key pollinators Apis mellifera and Bombus terrestris

(2011) Silvio Erler et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

(2011) S. A. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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 diversity of field-caught mosquitoes, Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti, from different geographic regions of Madagascar

(2010) Karima Zouache et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Molecular Divergence Defines Two Distinct Lineages of Crithidia bombi (Trypanosomatidae), Parasites of Bumblebees

(2010) REGULA SCHMID-HEMPEL et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bumblebee vulnerability and conservation world-wide

(2009) Paul H. Williams et al.   APIDOLOGIE

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BARCRAWL and BARTAB: software tools for the design and implementation of barcoded primers for highly multiplexed DNA sequencing

(2009) Daniel N Frank   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest

(2008) Jennifer C. Grixti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Lactobacillus phylogenomics - towards a reclassification of the genus

(2008) M. J. Claesson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Is the magnitude of pollen limitation in a plant community affected by pollinator visitation and plant species specialisation levels?

(2008) Stein Joar Hegland et al.   OIKOS

Does Pathogen Spillover from Commercially Reared Bumble Bees Threaten Wild Pollinators?

(2008) Michael C. Otterstatter et al.   PLoS One

Therapeutic correction of bacterial dysbiosis discovered by molecular techniques

(2008) R. B. Sartor   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

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