Do Honeybees Shape the Bacterial Community Composition in Floral Nectar?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Aizenberg Gershtein, Yana ^a   Izhaki, Ido ^a   Halpern, Malka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALMOND; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOWER; GRAPEFRUIT; HONEYBEE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SAMPLING; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BEES; FLOWERS; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT NECTAR; PLANTS; POLLINATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; ARSENOPHONUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRUS X PARADISI; OTUS; PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 84879761410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067556     Document Type: Article

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