• DOI:10.1073/pnas.1405838111
Corpus ID: 12447966

Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts

@article{Kwong2014GenomicsAH,
  title={Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts},
  author={W. Kwong and P. Engel and H. Koch and N. Moran},
  journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  year={2014},
  volume={111},
  pages={11509 - 11514}
}

W. Kwong, P. Engel, +1 author N. Moran

Published 2014

Biology, Medicine

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Significance Gut microbes are increasingly recognized as influential components of animal biology. Genomic, mechanistic, and evolutionary aspects of gut symbiont specialization remain understudied, however, largely due to the complexity of gut communities, especially in vertebrate systems. We show that the simple microbiota of eusocial bees exhibits host specificity and that coresident species in the bee gut possess complementary capabilities for energy metabolism, implying their occupancy in… CONTINUE READING

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