The honey bee is a powerful model system to probe host-gut microbiota interactions, and an
important pollinator species for natural ecosystems and for agriculture. While bacterial …

Ecological processes underlying bacterial coexistence in the gut are not well understood.
Here, we disentangled the effect of the host and the diet on the coexistence of four closely …

Honeybees are the most important crop pollinators that contribute significantly to agricultural
productivity and profitability worldwide. Microbiota accounts for up to 1–10% of the insect's …

Animal guts are often colonized by host-specialized bacterial species to the exclusion of
other transient microorganisms, but the genetic basis of colonization ability is largely …

Honeybees are prominent crop pollinators and thus important for an effective food
production. Without any apparent reason, massive bee colony losses appeared around the …

Microbial communities in animal guts are composed of diverse, specialized bacterial
species, but little is known about how gut bacteria diversify to produce genetically and …

Gut microbes can play an important role in digestion, disease resistance, and the general
health of animals, but little is known about the biology of gut symbionts in Apis mellifera. As …

Animals living in social communities typically harbor a characteristic gut microbiota
important for nutrition and pathogen defense. Accordingly, in the gut of the honey bee, Apis …

The host intestinal tract is a complex ecosystem offering niches for beneficial symbionts that
aid in food digestion and disease resistance (Engel and Moran, 2013b; Pereira and Berry …

We characterized the intracellular symbiotic bacteria of the hematophagous glossiphoniid
leeches Placobdelloides siamensis and a Parabdella sp. These leeches have a specialized …