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SUBMITTER: Kwong WK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5371421 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20170329 3
The highly social (eusocial) corbiculate bees, comprising the honey bees, bumble bees, and stingless bees, are ubiquitous insect pollinators that fulfill critical roles in ecosystem services and human agriculture. Here, we conduct wide sampling across the phylogeny of these corbiculate bees and reveal a dynamic evolutionary history behind their microbiota, marked by multiple gains and losses of gut associates, the presence of generalist as well as host-specific strains, and patterns of diversifi ...[more]