ArticleEcology and evolution2023
Influence of social lifestyles on host-microbe symbioses in the bees.
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- The honeybee gut microbiome: a novel multidimensional model of antimicrobial resistance transmission and immune homeostasis from environmental interactions to health regulation.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Microbial Evolution in Allodapine Bees: Perspectives From Trophallactic, Socially Plastic Pollinators.Evolutionary applications · 2025Review
- Comparing the impact of landscape on the gut microbiome of Apis mellifera in Atlantic Forest and Caatinga Biomes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fungal diversity in larval diets of Melipona interrupta: Impacts on queen development and survival.Genetics and molecular biology · 2025Article
- Host identity, more than elevation, shapes bee microbiomes along a tropical elevation gradient.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Influence of social lifestyles on host-microbe symbioses in the bees.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
Microbiomes are increasingly recognised as critical for the health of an organism. In eusocial insect societies, frequent social interactions allow for high-fidelity transmission of microbes across generations, leading to closer host-microbe coevolution. The microbial communities of bees with other social lifestyles are less studied, and few comparisons have been made between taxa that vary in social structure. To address this gap, we leveraged a cloud-computing resource and publicly available transcriptomic data to conduct a survey of microbial diversity in bee samples from a variety of social lifestyles and taxa. We consistently recover the core microbes of well-studied corbiculate bees, supporting this method's ability to accurately characterise microbial communities. We find that the bacterial communities of bees are influenced by host location, phylogeny and social lifestyle, although no clear effect was found for fungal or viral microbial communities. Bee genera with more complex societies tend to harbour more diverse microbes, with
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