Gut microbial communities of social bees

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 374-384

  Kwong, Waldan K ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL CASTE; FUNGUS; HONEYBEE; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; VIRUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BARTONELLA; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

RNA 16S;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BARTONELLA; BEES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84965065041     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.43     Document Type: Review

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