ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2022
Changes in gut microbiota and metabolism associated with phenotypic plasticity in the honey bee
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- A network-based meta-analysis of the honeybee gut microbiome: geographic, seasonal, and pesticide-associated shifts.Scientific reports · 2026Pooled it
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- Image-based honey bee larval viral and bacterial diagnosis using machine learning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Antibiotic treatment of honey bee colonies alters early gut microbiome assembly and induces persistent dysbiosis in newly emerged workers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Efficiency of the Krebs Cycle and the Respiratory Chain in Physiologically and Prematurely Aging Bees (International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- A Review of Diet and Foraged Pollen Interactions with the Honeybee Gut Microbiome.Microbial ecology · 2025Review
- Honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen quality: host-microbial transcriptomes exploring the influence of age and hindgut symbiont Commensalibacter melissae.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
- A longitudinal study of queen health in honey bees reveals tissue specific response to seasonal changes and pathogen pressure.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Gut Microbiota ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Genomic investigations of diverse corbiculate bee gut-associated Gilliamella reveal conserved pathways for energy metabolism, with diverse and variable energy sources.Access microbiology · 2024Article
- Cold storage as part of a Varroa management strategy: effects on honey bee colony performance, mite levels and stress biomarkers.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- ThePathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Honey bee retinue workers respond similarly to queens despite seasonal differences in Queen Mandibular Pheromone (QMP) signaling.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Honey bees exhibit an elaborate social structure based in part on an age-related division of labor. Young workers perform tasks inside the hive, while older workers forage outside the hive, tasks associated with distinct diets and metabolism. Critical to colony fitness, the work force can respond rapidly to changes in the environment or colony demography and assume emergency tasks, resulting in young foragers or old nurses. We hypothesized that both task and age affect the gut microbiota consistent with changes to host diet and physiology. We performed two experiments inducing precocious foragers and reverted nurses, then quantified tissue-specific gut microbiota and host metabolic state associated with nutrition, immunity and oxidative stress. In the precocious forager experiment, both age and ontogeny explained differences in midgut and ileum microbiota, but host gene expression was best explained by an interaction of these factors. Precocious foragers were nutritionally deficient, and incurred higher levels of oxidative damage relative to age-matched nurses. In the oldest workers, reverted nurses, the oxidative damage associated with age and past foraging was compensated by high Vitellogenin expression, which exceeded that of young nurses. Host-microbial interactions were evident throughout the dataset, highlighted by an age-based increase of
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