Insect pests cause significant agricultural and economic losses to crops worldwide due to
their destructive activities. Pesticides are designed to be poisonous and are intentionally …

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 …

Glyphosate, the primary herbicide used globally for weed control, targets the 5-
enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) enzyme in the shikimate pathway …

The gut microbiomes of human populations worldwide have many core microbial species in
common. However, within a species, some strains can show remarkable population …

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 …

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 …

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are key pollinators that support global agriculture and are long-
established models for developmental and behavioural research. Recently, they have …

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 …

Gut microbiomes play crucial roles in animal health, and shifts in the gut microbial
community structure can have detrimental impacts on hosts. Studies with vertebrate models …

Adult honeybees harbor a specialized gut microbiota of relatively low complexity. While
seasonal differences in community composition have been reported, previous studies have …