Gut microbiota variation of a tropical oil-collecting bee species far exceeds that of the honeybee.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Interest for bee microbiota has recently been rising, alleviating the gap in knowledge in regard to drivers of solitary bee gut microbiota. However, no study has addressed the microbial acquisition routes of tropical solitary bees. For both social and solitary bees, the gut microbiota has several essential roles such as food processing and immune responses. While social bees such as honeybees maintain a constant gut microbiota by direct transmission from individuals of the same hive, solitary bees do not have direct contact between generations. They thus acquire their gut microbiota from the environment and/or the provision of their brood cell. To establish the role of life history in structuring the gut microbiota of solitary bees, we characterized the gut microbiota

SUBMITTER: Kardas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10229882 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature