Gut microbial communities can greatly affect host health by modulating the host's immune
system. For many important insects, however, the relationship between the gut microbiota …

Did you know that there are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells? To be more
exact, there are roughly 40 trillion bacterial cells in your body and only 30 trillion human …

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 …

On Earth, we find an amazing number of creatures living together. Each creature is unique.
All of them interact together, without borders, making this world—our world—a beautiful …

In recent years, the survival of the Western honeybee, Apis mellifera, an important pollinator,
has been severely threatened by climate change, habitats loss, pesticides, pathogens and …

Starting in 2003, numerous studies using culture-independent methodologies to
characterize the gut microbiota of honey bees have retrieved a consistent and distinctive set …

Like all good adventures, creating ThaenaBiotic® took a few years of blood, sweat, tears,
and-of course-lots and lots of poop. Looking at our arduous journey, we are often asked why …

Most of the tiny stowaways hide out in the gastrointestinal tract—the gut—stealing a share of
everything we eat or drink. But that's only fair, because most of these bugs give as good as …

Highlights•The honey bee gut microbiome contains five core bacterial species mainly in
hindguts.•This core microbiome is implicated in nutrition and development of adult …