Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

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Ecological effects on gut bacterial communities in wild bumblebee colonies

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

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Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

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FOOD-ENVIRONMENT MEDIATES THE OUTCOME OF SPECIFIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A BUMBLEBEE AND ITS TRYPANOSOME PARASITE

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Genetic exchange and emergence of novel strains in directly transmitted trypanosomatids

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

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The Genotypic Structure of a Multi-Host Bumblebee Parasite Suggests a Role for Ecological Niche Overlap

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Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

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Natural Microbe-Mediated Refractoriness to Plasmodium Infection in Anopheles gambiae

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Microbiome influences on insect host vector competence

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Acetic Acid Bacteria, Newly Emerging Symbionts of Insects

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Why bacteria matter in animal development and evolution

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Infection with the trypanosome Crithidia bombi and expression of immune-related genes in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

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

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Ample genetic variation but no evidence for genotype specificity in an all-parthenogenetic host-parasitoid interaction

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

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A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

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Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

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GENOTYPIC VARIATION AND THE ROLE OF DEFENSIVE ENDOSYMBIONTS IN AN ALL-PARTHENOGENETIC HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION

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Differential Expression of Immune Defences Is Associated with Specific Host-Parasite Interactions in Insects

(2009) Carolyn Riddell et al.   PLoS One

Interactions between mutualist Wigglesworthia and tsetse peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP-LB) influence trypanosome transmission

(2009) J. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants

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Advances in the use of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of 16S rRNA genes to characterize microbial communities

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