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Gut microbiota variation across sympatric stingless bee species and honey bees in the Neotropics

2025-11-29

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Stingless bees (Meliponini) are ecologically and culturally important pollinators with a long tradition of human management in the Neotropics. Yet, little is known about how their gut microbiota vary across geographic regions or whether microbial exchange occurs with managed honey bees ( Apis mellifera ), which are often kept in close proximity. Using full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing of individual bees sample...

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Literature Corpus work: 88da9537-ac6a-5a42-85a9-f8d15e060aaa
DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.29.691224

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