Lactobacillus melliventris promotes hive productivity and immune functionality in Bombus terrestris performance in the greenhouse

Use of Lactobacillus plantarum in Preventing Clinical Cases of American and European Foulbrood in Central Italy

(2022) Marco Pietropaoli et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

Specific Strains of Honeybee Gut Lactobacillus Stimulate Host Immune System to Protect against Pathogenic Hafnia alvei

(2022) Haoyu Lang et al.   Microbiology Spectrum

Bumblebees with the socially transmitted microbiome: A novel model organism for gut microbiota research

(2022) Zi‐Jing Zhang et al.   Insect Science

Prospects for probiotics in social bees

(2022) Erick V. S. Motta et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Food wanting is mediated by transient activation of dopaminergic signaling in the honey bee brain

(2022) Jingnan Huang et al.   SCIENCE

Honeybee gut Lactobacillus modulates host learning and memory behaviors via regulating tryptophan metabolism

(2022) Zijing Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Distinct Roles of Honeybee Gut Bacteria on Host Metabolism and Neurological Processes

(2022) Zijing Zhang et al.   Microbiology Spectrum

Bacillus velezensis EEAM 10B Strengthens Nutrient Metabolic Process in Black Soldier Fly Larvae (Hermetia illucens) via Changing Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Pathways

(2022) Yaxin Pei et al.   Frontiers in Nutrition

Bumblebee Pollination Enhances Yield and Flavor of Tomato in Gobi Desert Greenhouses

(2022) Hong Zhang et al.   Agriculture-Basel

Impacts of Imidacloprid and Flupyradifurone Insecticides on the Gut Microbiota of Bombus terrestris

(2022) Qingchao Zhang et al.   Agriculture-Basel

A multistrain probiotic reduces sarcopenia by modulating Wnt signaling biomarkers in patients with chronic heart failure

(2022) Asima Karim et al.   Journal of Cardiology

Feeding probiotics and organic acids to honeybees enhances acinal surface area of their hypopharyngeal glands

(2022) Ali Hasan et al.   RESEARCH IN VETERINARY SCIENCE

Multi-kingdom ecological drivers of microbiota assembly in preterm infants

(2021) Chitong Rao et al.   NATURE

The emerging role of miRNA in regulating the mTOR signaling pathway in immune and inflammatory responses

(2021) Nazanin Nazari et al.   IMMUNOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY

Niche partitioning facilitates coexistence of closely related honey bee gut bacteria

(2021) Silvia Brochet et al.   eLife

Warm Temperatures Reduce Flower Attractiveness and Bumblebee Foraging

(2021) Charlotte Descamps et al.   Insects

Field-Realistic Tylosin Exposure Impacts Honey Bee Microbiota and Pathogen Susceptibility, Which Is Ameliorated by Native Gut Probiotics

(2021) J. Elijah Powell et al.   Microbiology Spectrum

Amelioration of growth, nutritional value, and microbial load of Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) through probiotic supplemented feed

(2021) Eleftheria Rizou et al.   EUROPEAN FOOD RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

Gut microbiome drives individual memory variation in bumblebees

(2021) Li Li et al.   Nature Communications

Strain-level analysis reveals the vertical microbial transmission during the life cycle of bumblebee

(2021) Qinzhi Su et al.   Microbiome

Effect of Application of Probiotic Pollen Suspension on Immune Response and Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

(2020) Ivana Cingeľová Maruščáková et al.   Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Opposing effects of antibiotics and germ-free status on neuropeptide systems involved in social behaviour and pain regulation

(2020) Katerina V. A. Johnson et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

Lactobacillus spp. attenuate antibiotic-induced immune and microbiota dysregulation in honey bees

(2020) Brendan A. Daisley et al.   Communications Biology

Gut bacterial tyrosine decarboxylases restrict levels of levodopa in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease

(2019) Sebastiaan P. van Kessel et al.   Nature Communications

Gut microbiota density influences host physiology and is shaped by host and microbial factors

(2019) Eduardo J Contijoch et al.   eLife

The human gut Firmicute Roseburia intestinalis is a primary degrader of dietary β-mannans

(2019) Sabina Leanti La Rosa et al.   Nature Communications

Manure application improves both bumblebee flower visitation and crop yield in intensive farmland

(2019) Weronika Banaszak-Cibicka et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

(2019) Evan Bolyen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Discovery and inhibition of an interspecies gut bacterial pathway for Levodopa metabolism

(2019) Vayu Maini Rekdal et al.   SCIENCE

Bombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Microcolonies as a Tool for Biological Understanding and Pesticide Risk Assessment

(2019) Ellen G Klinger et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

An interaction between host and microbe genotypes determines colonization success of a key bumble bee gut microbiota member

(2019) Logan A. Sauers et al.   EVOLUTION

Novel probiotic approach to counter Paenibacillus larvae infection in honey bees

(2019) Brendan A. Daisley et al.   ISME Journal

Dynamic Changes of Gut Microbial Communities of Bumble Bee Queens through Important Life Stages

(2019) Liuhao Wang et al.   mSystems

Coordinated species importation policies are needed to reduce serious invasions globally: The case of alien bumblebees in South America

(2018) Marcelo A. Aizen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Antibiotic-induced microbiome depletion alters metabolic homeostasis by affecting gut signaling and colonic metabolism

(2018) Amir Zarrinpar et al.   Nature Communications

Immune-cognitive system connectivity reduces bumblebee foraging success in complex multisensory floral environments

(2018) Melissa W. Mobley et al.   Scientific Reports

Wnt/β-catenin signalling is necessary for gut differentiation in a marine annelid, Platynereis dumerilii

(2018) Radim Žídek et al.   EvoDevo

Ragulator and SLC38A9 activate the Rag GTPases through noncanonical GEF mechanisms

(2018) Kuang Shen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low dose of neonicotinoid insecticide reduces foraging motivation of bumblebees

(2018) Juho Lämsä et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genotype specificity among hosts, pathogens, and beneficial microbes influences the strength of symbiont-mediated protection

(2017) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   EVOLUTION

Quantitative microbiome profiling links gut community variation to microbial load

(2017) Doris Vandeputte et al.   NATURE

MicrobiomeAnalyst: a web-based tool for comprehensive statistical, visual and meta-analysis of microbiome data

(2017) Achal Dhariwal et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Developmental roles of tyrosine metabolism enzymes in the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus

(2017) Marcos Sterkel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Lactobacillus paraplantarum 11-1 Isolated from Rice Bran Pickles Activated Innate Immunity and Improved Survival in a Silkworm Bacterial Infection Model

(2017) Satoshi Nishida et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Roles of Octopamine and Dopamine Neurons for Mediating Appetitive and Aversive Signals in Pavlovian Conditioning in Crickets

(2017) Makoto Mizunami et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Lactic acid bacteria-specific induction of CD4+Foxp3+T cells ameliorates shrimp tropomyosin-induced allergic response in mice via suppression of mTOR signaling

(2017) Linglin Fu et al.   Scientific Reports

Neonicotinoid-induced pathogen susceptibility is mitigated by Lactobacillus plantarum immune stimulation in a Drosophila melanogaster model

(2017) Brendan A. Daisley et al.   Scientific Reports

Hygienic food to reduce pathogen risk to bumblebees

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

Probiotic-based strategies for therapeutic and prophylactic use against multiple gastrointestinal diseases

(2015) Natallia V. Varankovich et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

HTSeq--a Python framework to work with high-throughput sequencing data

(2014) S. Anders et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Towards an integrated understanding of gut microbiota using insects as model systems

(2014) Mathieu Pernice et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Mechanism underlying prolongevity induced by bifidobacteria in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2013) Tomomi Komura et al.   BIOGERONTOLOGY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Effects of probiotic-supplemented diets on growth performance and intestinal immune characteristics of broiler chickens

(2013) S. P. Bai et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Tyrosine decarboxylase from Lactobacillus brevis: Soluble expression and characterization

(2013) Kai Zhang et al.   PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION

Effects of the organic acids produced by a lactic acid bacterium in Apis mellifera colony development, Nosema ceranae control and fumagillin efficiency

(2013) Matías Maggi et al.   VETERINARY 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

Mite species inhabiting commercial bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) nests in Polish greenhouses

(2012) Elżbieta Rożej et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Factors influencing Nosema bombi infections in natural populations of Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2012) Anett Huth-Schwarz et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

clusterProfiler: an R Package for Comparing Biological Themes Among Gene Clusters

(2012) Guangchuang Yu et al.   OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY

Interplay between autophagy and apoptosis in the development of Danio rerio follicles and the effects of a probiotic

(2012) Giorgia Gioacchini et al.   REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Assessing the efficacy of artificial domiciles for bumblebees

(2011) Gillian C. Lye et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

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

Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

(2010) Heng Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Tyrosine phosphorylation of R3 subtype receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatases and their complex formations with Grb2 or Fyn

(2010) Yoji Murata et al.   GENES TO CELLS

Production of amylase by the intestinal bacteria of Japanese coastal animals

(2010) H. Sugita et al.   LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Meat quality and carcass traits in relation to HGD-BstXI and HGD-HaeIII PCR–RFLP polymorphism in Chinese red cattle

(2010) G.L. Zhou et al.   MEAT SCIENCE

Aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase expression profiling and isoform detection in the developing porcine brain

(2009) Jenny Blechingberg et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

The glypican Dally is required in the niche for the maintenance of germline stem cells and short-range BMP signaling in the Drosophila ovary

(2009) Z. Guo et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Molecular cloning of the HGD gene and association of SNPs with meat quality traits in Chinese red cattle

(2009) Guoli Zhou et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

A new perspective on the treatment of aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase deficiency

(2009) George F.G. Allen et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND METABOLISM

Interspecific mating of the introduced bumblebee Bombus terrestris and the native Japanese bumblebee Bombus hypocrita sapporoensis results in inviable hybrids

(2008) Yuya Kanbe et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN