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
… reservoir of environmental DNA (eDNA) signatures and information … the honey bee hologenome
complexity. In this study, we tested a deep shotgun sequencing approach of honey DNA

A genotyping by sequencing approach can disclose Apis mellifera population genomic information contained in honey environmental DNA

S Bovo, VJ Utzeri, A Ribani, V Taurisano, G Schiavo… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
honey DNA, which derives from thousands of honey bees. … Again, using honey eDNA and
shotgun sequencing produced … complex matrices where more than one individual honey

The buzz about honey-based biosurveys

P Vuong, AP Griffiths, E Barbour, P Kaur - npj Biodiversity, 2024 - nature.com
… botanical and entomological signatures 59,60 . However, the … of adult honey bees are
observed to be low complexity … microbial drivers within the combined hologenome 39 . In the …

Reconstructing the ecosystem context of a species: Honey-borne DNA reveals the roles of the honeybee

HK Wirta, M Bahram, K Miller, T Roslin, E Vesterinen - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
can be used to describe the different functions’ commonness overall. For assessing the
diversity of taxa in honey as well as the ecological … bacterial and fungal sequences obtained by …

Honey bee genetics shape the strain-level structure of gut microbiota in social transmission

J Wu, H Lang, X Mu, Z Zhang, Q Su, X Hu, H Zheng - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
… genomes of 116 bee gut bacterial isolates obtained in this … Since the honey bee gut community
had a low complexity at … presence/absence signatures that may explain the inheritance …

Towards DNA-Based Methods Analysis for Honey: An Update

S Soares, F Rodrigues, C Delerue-Matos - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
… The DNA present in honey is derived from different sources (… For complex matrices such as
honey, DNA-based methods were … (eDNA) signatures, information based on the DNA can be …

DNA traces the origin of honey by identifying plants, bacteria and fungi

H Wirta, N Abrego, K Miller, T Roslin, E Vesterinen - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
… the environment, while bacterial and fungal taxa found in honeyDNA can be used to
differentiate among honey samples from neighbouring countries, we obtained 19 samples of honey

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

WA Shell, SM Rehan - Communications biology, 2022 - nature.com
… social complexity. Our study helps to establish some of the first wild bee hologenomic data
… We now appreciate that the microbiomes of highly social honey bees and other members of …

… authentication of honey based on a DNA method that distinguishes Apis mellifera mitochondrial C mitotypes: Application to honey produced by A. m. ligustica and A …

VJ Utzeri, A Ribani, V Taurisano, L Fontanesi - Food Control, 2022 - Elsevier
sequencing of the amplified fragment obtained with the newly designed primer pairs. PCR
products obtained from honey bee DNA or from DNA of honey … of honey is a complex matter …

Honey quality control: Review of methodologies for determining entomological origin

S Mohamadzade Namin, S Ghosh, C Jung - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
… However, as the honey is a complex matrix, the inconsistency of the results obtained by …
such as whole-genome shotgun sequencing can provide more accurate quantitative results [87]. …