Microbial Diversity Associated with the Pollen Stores of Captive-Bred Bumble Bee Colonies

Genomic changes underlying host specialization in the bee gut symbiont Lactobacillus Firm5

(2019) K M Ellegaard et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic analyses of antibiotic-producing Streptomyces sp. isolates obtained from the stingless-bee Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae: Meliponini)

(2019) Juan Carlos Cambronero-Heinrichs et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Omnivory in bees: Elevated trophic positions among all major bee families

(2019) Shawn Alan Steffan et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Not all animals need a microbiome

(2019) Tobin J Hammer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Infection by the castrating parasitic nematode Sphaerularia bombi changes gene expression in Bombus terrestris bumblebee queens

(2019) T. J. Colgan et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A mutualistic interaction between Streptomyces bacteria, strawberry plants and pollinating bees

(2019) Da-Ran Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Why Are Queens Broodless? Failed Nest Initiation Not Linked to Parasites, Mating Status, or Ovary Development in Two Bumble Bee Species of Pyrobombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)

(2019) Jessica L Mullins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Digestibility and nutritional value of fresh and stored pollen for honey bees ( Apis mellifera scutellata )

(2018) Susan W. Nicolson et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Metaorganisms in extreme environments: do microbes play a role in organismal adaptation?

(2018) Corinna Bang et al.   ZOOLOGY

Bacterial communities associated with honeybee food stores are correlated with land use

(2018) Philip Donkersley et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Microbiome Structure Influences Infection by the Parasite Crithidia bombi in Bumble Bees

(2018) Blair K. Mockler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

pH-mediated inhibition of a bumble bee parasite by an intestinal symbiont

(2018) Evan C. Palmer-Young et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Gut and Whole-Body Microbiota of the Honey Bee Separate Thriving and Non-thriving Hives

(2018) Céline Ribière et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The evolution of host-symbiont dependence

(2017) Roberta M. Fisher et al.   Nature Communications

Empirical, Metagenomic, and Computational Techniques Illuminate the Mechanisms by which Fungicides Compromise Bee Health

(2017) Shawn A. Steffan et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Dynamic microbiome evolution in social bees

(2017) Waldan K. Kwong et al.   Science Advances

Honey bees preferentially consume freshly-stored pollen

(2017) Mark J. Carroll et al.   PLoS One

Hygienic food to reduce pathogen risk to bumblebees

(2016) P. Graystock et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Strain diversity and host specificity in a specialized gut symbiont of honeybees and bumblebees

(2016) Elijah Powell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gut microbial communities of social bees

(2016) Waldan K. Kwong et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Test of the invasive pathogen hypothesis of bumble bee decline in North America

(2016) Sydney A. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Bee Microbiome: Impact on Bee Health and Model for Evolution and Ecology of Host-Microbe Interactions

(2016) Philipp Engel et al.   mBio

Relationship between honeybee nutrition and their microbial communities

(2015) Miriane Acosta Saraiva et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Plasticity in the gut microbial community and uptake of Enterobacteriaceae (Gammaproteobacteria) in Bombus terrestris bumblebees’ nests when reared indoors and moved to an outdoor environment

(2015) Laurian Parmentier et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Mitigating the anthropogenic spread of bee parasites to protect wild pollinators

(2015) Dave Goulson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Commercial Bombus impatiens as reservoirs of emerging infectious diseases in central México

(2015) Bernardo Sachman-Ruiz et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Two gut community enterotypes recur in diverse bumblebee species

(2015) Jilian Li et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cross-kingdom similarities in microbiome functions

(2015) Rodrigo Mendes et al.   ISME Journal

A sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and managed bees

(2015) Dino P. McMahon et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

REVIEW: Emerging viral disease risk to pollinating insects: ecological, evolutionary and anthropogenic factors

(2015) Robyn Manley et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Nutrient balancing of the adult worker bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) depends on the dietary source of essential amino acids

(2015) D. Stabler et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Bacterial symbiont sharing inMegalomyrmexsocial parasites and their fungus-growing ant hosts

(2015) Joanito Liberti et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Methods for Comparing Nutrients in Beebread Made by Africanized and European Honey Bees and the Effects on Hemolymph Protein Titers

(2015) Gloria Degrandi-Hoffman et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Colonies of Bumble Bees (Bombus impatiens) Produce Fewer Workers, Less Bee Biomass, and Have Smaller Mother Queens Following Fungicide Exposure

(2015) Olivia Bernauer et al.   Insects

16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing Demonstrates that Indoor-Reared Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) Harbor a Core Subset of Bacteria Normally Associated with the Wild Host

(2015) Ivan Meeus et al.   PLoS One

First Detection of the Larval Chalkbrood Disease Pathogen Ascosphaera apis (Ascomycota: Eurotiomycetes: Ascosphaerales) in Adult Bumble Bees

(2015) Sarah A. Maxfield-Taylor et al.   PLoS One

The Cockroach Origin of the Termite Gut Microbiota: Patterns in Bacterial Community Structure Reflect Major Evolutionary Events

(2014) Carsten Dietrich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2014) J. Elijah Powell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Composition of Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae microbiota from larval to adult stages

(2014) Geoffrey Gimonneau et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2014) Daniel P Cariveau et al.   ISME Journal

Parasites and genetic diversity in an invasive bumblebee

(2014) Catherine M. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Effect of oral infection with Kashmir bee virus and Israeli acute paralysis virus on bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) reproductive success

(2014) Ivan Meeus et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Hive-stored pollen of honey bees: many lines of evidence are consistent with pollen preservation, not nutrient conversion

(2014) Kirk E. Anderson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Identifying the core microbial community in the gut of fungus-growing termites

(2014) Saria Otani et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators

(2014) M. A. Fürst et al.   NATURE

The Bacterial Communities Associated with Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Foragers

(2014) Vanessa Corby-Harris et al.   PLoS One

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

(2014) W. K. Kwong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pathogen prevalence in commercially reared bumble bees and evidence of spillover in conspecific populations

(2013) Tomás E. Murray et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

PCR-SSCP-based reconstruction of the original fungal flora of heat-processed meat products

(2013) Samart Dorn-In et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Lactobacillus apis sp. nov., from the stomach of honeybees (Apis mellifera), having an in vitro inhibitory effect on the causative agents of American and European foulbrood

(2013) J. Killer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

The Trojan hives: pollinator pathogens, imported and distributed in bumblebee colonies

(2013) Peter Graystock et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Emerging dangers: Deadly effects of an emergent parasite in a new pollinator host

(2013) Peter Graystock et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Diversity and evolutionary patterns of bacterial gut associates of corbiculate bees

(2013) Hauke Koch et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Jeffery S. Pettis et al.   PLoS One

Microbial Gut Diversity of Africanized and European Honey Bee Larval Instars

(2013) Svjetlana Vojvodic et al.   PLoS One

Microbial Ecology of the Hive and Pollination Landscape: Bacterial Associates from Floral Nectar, the Alimentary Tract and Stored Food of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

(2013) Kirk E. Anderson et al.   PLoS One

Bees diversified in the age of eudicots

(2013) S. Cardinal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances

(2012) Jun Chen et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Alien parasite hitchhikes to Patagonia on invasive bumblebee

(2012) Marina P. Arbetman et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

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

Ecological effects on gut bacterial communities in wild bumblebee colonies

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

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

(2012) Jae-Hyung Ahn et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

The Relative Abundance of Mountain Pine Beetle Fungal Associates Through the Beetle Life Cycle in Pine Trees

(2012) Lily Khadempour et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies

(2012) Anna Klindworth et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Pervasiveness of Parasites in Pollinators

(2012) Sophie E. F. Evison 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

Correction: Symbionts as Major Modulators of Insect Health: Lactic Acid Bacteria and Honeybees

(2012) Alejandra Vásquez et al.   PLoS One

Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use

(2012) M. Kleiner 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

Do pathogen spillover, pesticide use, or habitat loss explain recent North American bumblebee declines?

(2012) Nora D. Szabo et al.   Conservation Letters

The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies

(2011) Sara Diana Leonhardt et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Effects of Invasive Parasites on Bumble Bee Declines

(2011) IVAN MEEUS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Beyond the Venn diagram: the hunt for a core microbiome

(2011) Ashley Shade et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An emerging paradigm of colony health: microbial balance of the honey bee and hive (Apis mellifera)

(2011) K. E. Anderson et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

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

(2011) Hauke Koch et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

(2011) J. L. Sachs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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

RNA Viruses in Hymenopteran Pollinators: Evidence of Inter-Taxa Virus Transmission via Pollen and Potential Impact on Non-Apis Hymenopteran Species

(2010) Rajwinder Singh et al.   PLoS One

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

Extraordinarily widespread and fantastically complex: comparative biology of endosymbiotic bacterial and fungal mutualists of insects

(2009) Cara M. Gibson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The lactic acid bacteria involved in the production of bee pollen and bee bread

(2009) Alejandra Vásquez et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Inhibition of Paenibacillus larvae and Ascosphaera apis by Bacillus subtilis isolated from honeybee gut and honey samples

(2009) Daniela C. Sabaté et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Actinomycetes isolated from beehives in Thailand

(2009) Yaowanoot Promnuan et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

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