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Do Shifts in Honeybee Crop Microbiota Enable Ethanol Accumulation? A Comparative Analysis of Caged and Foraging Bees.
Microbial ecology - 4 Dec 2025
Antoł Weronika, Surmacz Bartłomiej, Ostap-Chec Monika, Stec Daniel, Miler Krzysztof
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Honeybees encounter low environmental doses of ethanol, primarily through fermenting nectar, which can have both beneficial and detrimental effects on their functioning. Yet, ethanol traces can also be detected in the crop of caged bees with no access to environmental food sources. This raises the possibility that endogenous ethanol accumulation could occur under restricted conditions, with microbial...
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