Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees
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Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees
Surveys of 16S rDNA sequences from the honey bee, Apis mellifera, have revealed the presence of eight distinctive bacterial phylotypes in intestinal tracts of adult worker bees. Because previous studies have been limited to relatively few sequences from samples pooled from multiple hosts, the extent of variation in this microbiota among individuals within and between colonies and locations has ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036393