The gut of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) possesses a relatively simple bacterial
community, but little is known about its community of prophages (temperate bacteriophages …

The honey bee, the world's most important agricultural pollinator, relies exclusively on plant‐
derived foods for nutrition. Nectar and pollen collected by honey bees are processed and …

Highlights•Honey bees harbor a simple gut microbiota that is experimentally tractable.•The
gut microbiota increases body weight gain and confers pathogen resistance.•Fermentation …

Gut microbiota research is an emerging field that improves our understanding of the
ecological and functional dynamics of gut environments. The honey bee gut microbiota is a …

Social bees harbor a simple and specialized microbiota that is spatially organized into
different gut compartments. Recent results on the potential involvement of bee gut …

Honeybees (Apis sp.) and bumblebees (Bombus sp.) harbor characteristic gut communities
composed of only a small number of bacterial species. This contrasts the immense diversity …

In general, honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) feed on honey produced from collected nectar. In
the absence of nectar, during certain times of the year or in monocultural landscapes, honey …

47 Symbiotic relationships between bacteria and eukaryotes are pervasive and range 48
from loose associations to obligate interdependencies (McFall-Ngai et al. 2013; Kostic 49 et …

Host specificity is observed in gut symbionts of diverse animal lineages. But how hosts
maintain symbionts while rejecting their close relatives remains elusive. We use eusocial …