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Gain and loss of gut symbionts during stingless bee diversification is linked to host group size

2026-01-20

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Microbiomes typically vary between closely related host species, but how and why they diverge during host diversification remain poorly understood. Bees provide a well-established model for the role of sociality in microbiome evolution: solitary species have generalist gut bacterial symbionts, while eusocial honey bees and bumble bees have host-specific “core” gut bacterial symbionts. Curiously however, some speci...

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Literature Corpus work: 6574b195-9899-5884-8175-2ea2b70a24ba
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.16.699994

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