[PDF][PDF] Bees just wanna have fungi: a review of bee associations with nonpathogenic fungi

D Rutkowski, M Weston… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bee–fungus associations are common, and while most studies focus on entomopathogens,
emerging evidence suggests that bees associate with a variety of symbiotic fungi that can …

Micro” bee” ota: Honey bee normal microbiota as a part of superorganism

D Smutin, E Lebedev, M Selitskiy, N Panyushev… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Honey bees are model organisms for microbiota research. Gut microbiomes are very
interesting for surveys due to their simple structure and relationship with hive production …

Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project

E Vancaester, M Blaxter - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence all described terrestrial and
aquatic eukaryotic species found in Britain and Ireland. Reference genome sequences are …

Thiacloprid exposure perturbs the gut microbiota and reduces the survival status in honeybees

YJ Liu, NH Qiao, QY Diao, Z Jing, R Vukanti… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) offer ecosystem services such as pollination, conservation of
biodiversity, and provision of food. However, in recent years, the number of honeybee …

Shotgun sequencing of honey DNA can describe honey bee derived environmental signatures and the honey bee hologenome complexity

S Bovo, VJ Utzeri, A Ribani, R Cabbri, L Fontanesi - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Honey bees are large-scale monitoring tools due to their extensive environmental
exploration. In their activities and from the hive ecosystem complex, they get in close contact …

Host species and geography differentiate honeybee gut bacterial communities by changing the relative contribution of community assembly processes

Y Ge, Z Jing, Q Diao, JZ He, YJ Liu - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Honeybee gut microbiota modulates the health and fitness of honeybees, the ecologically
and economically important pollinators and honey producers. However, which processes …

Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra-and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes

WA Shell, SM Rehan - Communications biology, 2022 - nature.com
The holobiont approach proposes that species are most fully understood within the context
of their associated microbiomes, and that both host and microbial community are locked in a …

Honey-bee–associated prokaryotic viral communities reveal wide viral diversity and a profound metabolic coding potential

W Deboutte, L Beller, CK Yinda… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) produce an enormous economic value through their pollination
activities and play a central role in the biodiversity of entire ecosystems. Recent efforts have …

Apis mellifera filamentous virus from a honey bee gut microbiome survey in Hungary

M Papp, AG Tóth, L Békési, R Farkas, L Makrai… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In Hungary, as part of a nationwide, climatically balanced survey for a next-generation
sequencing-based study of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) gut microbiome, repeated …

Metagenome-derived virus-microbe ratios across ecosystems

P López-García, A Gutiérrez-Preciado… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
It is generally assumed that viruses outnumber cells on Earth by at least tenfold. Virus-to-
microbe ratios (VMR) are largely based on counts of fluorescently labelled virus-like …