Simple Summary Bees are important pollinators that play a role in balancing ecosystems;
however, their survival rates have decreased due to many factors, including pathogens and …

Honey bees are economically relevant pollinators experiencing population declines due to a
number of threats. As in humans, the health of bees is influenced by their microbiome. The …

Insects are an incredibly diverse group of animals with species that benefit and harm natural
ecosystems, agriculture, and human health. Many insects have consequential associations …

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 …

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 …

Engineering the bacteria present in animal microbiomes promises to lead to breakthroughs
in medicine and agriculture, but progress is hampered by a dearth of tools for genetically …

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are critical agricultural pollinators as well as model organisms
for research on development, behavior, memory, and learning. The parasite Nosema …

There is growing number of studies demonstrating a close relationship between insect gut
microbiota and insecticide resistance. However, the contribution of the honey bee gut …

Bacterial symbionts of eukaryotes often give up generalist lifestyles to specialize to particular
hosts. The eusocial honey bees and bumble bees harbor two such specialized gut …

Many insects maintain mutualistic associations with bacterial endosymbionts, but little is
known about how they originate in nature. In this study, we describe the establishment and …