Honey Bees Avoid Nectar Colonized by Three Bacterial Species, But Not by a Yeast Species, Isolated from the Bee Gut

The gut microflora of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, is receiving increasing attention as a potential determinant of the bees' health and their efficacy as pollinators. Studies have focused primarily on the microbial taxa that appear numerically dominant in the bee gut, with the assumption that...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 9; no. 1; p. e86494
Main Authors:	Good, Ashley P., Gauthier, Marie-Pierre L., Vannette, Rachel L., Fukami, Tadashi
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 22.01.2014 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Animal behavior Animals Apis mellifera Bacteria Bacteria - classification Bees Bees - microbiology Bees - physiology Biology Chemical properties Effectiveness European honeybee Experiments Feeding Field tests Flowers Forage Foraging behavior Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology Health Honey Hypotheses Insects Intestinal microflora Microbiota Microbiota (Symbiotic organisms) Microorganisms Nectar Plant Nectar Pollination Pollinators Preferences Species Studies Symbionts Taxa Yeast United States > US California
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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