Two gut community enterotypes recur in diverse bumblebee species

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2015, Pages R652-R653

  Li, Jilian ^a   Powell, J Elijah ^b   Guo, Jun ^e   Evans, Jay D ^d   Wu, Jie ^a   Williams, Paul ^f   Lin, Qinhui ^g   Moran, Nancy A ^b   Zhang, Zhigang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^g Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BEE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BEES; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84938575125     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.031     Document Type: Letter

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