Symbionts as major modulators of insect health: Lactic acid bacteria and honeybees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Vásquez, Alejandra ^a   Forsgren, Eva ^b   Fries, Ingemar ^b   Paxton, Robert J ^c,d   Flaberg, Emilie ^e   Szekely, Laszlo ^e   Olofsson, Tobias C ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CALLOW HONEYBEE; FEEDING; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HONEYBEE; INSECT HEALTH; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS KUNKEEI; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLINATION; SYMBIONT; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; BEE; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS KUNKEEI; MYA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84858050440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033188     Document Type: Article

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