Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

RM Bowers, NC Kyrpides, R Stepanauskas… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We present two standards developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) for
reporting bacterial and archaeal genome sequences. Both are extensions of the Minimum …

Gut microbial communities of social bees

WK Kwong, NA Moran - Nature reviews microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
The gut microbiota can have profound effects on hosts, but the study of these relationships in
humans is challenging. The specialized gut microbial community of honey bees is similar to …

Dynamic microbiome evolution in social bees

WK Kwong, LA Medina, H Koch, KW Sing, EJY Soh… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The highly social (eusocial) corbiculate bees, comprising the honey bees, bumble bees, and
stingless bees, are ubiquitous insect pollinators that fulfill critical roles in ecosystem services …

Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms

LV Flórez, PHW Biedermann, T Engl… - Natural Product …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: through 2014 Many organisms team up with microbes for defense against
predators, parasites, parasitoids, or pathogens. Here we review the described protective …

Metabolism of toxic sugars by strains of the bee gut symbiont Gilliamella apicola

H Zheng, A Nishida, WK Kwong, H Koch, P Engel… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Social bees collect carbohydrate-rich food to support their colonies, and yet, certain
carbohydrates present in their diet or produced through the breakdown of pollen are toxic to …

Community dynamics in structure and function of honey bee gut bacteria in response to winter dietary shift

C Li, M Tang, X Li, X Zhou - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Temperate honey bees (Apis mellifera) are challenged by low temperatures and abrupt
dietary shifts associated with behavioral changes during winter. Case studies have revealed …

Microbiome structure influences infection by the parasite Crithidia bombi in bumble bees

BK Mockler, WK Kwong, NA Moran… - Applied and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recent declines in bumble bee populations are of great concern and have prompted critical
evaluations of the role of pathogen introductions and host resistance in bee health. One …

ContScout: sensitive detection and removal of contamination from annotated genomes

B Bálint, Z Merényi, B Hegedüs, IV Grigoriev… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contamination of genomes is an increasingly recognized problem affecting several
downstream applications, from comparative evolutionary genomics to metagenomics. Here …

Community structure of the gut microbiota in sympatric species of wild Drosophila

VG Martinson, AE Douglas, J Jaenike - Ecology Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Many aspects of animal ecology and physiology are influenced by the microbial
communities within them. The underlying forces contributing to the assembly and diversity of …

Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa

A Oren, GM Garrity, CT Parker, M Chuvochina… - 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
We here present annotated lists of names of Candidatus taxa of prokaryotes with ranks
between subspecies and class, proposed between the mid-1990s, when the provisional …