Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite
By H. Koch, P. Schmid-Hempel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Social behavior and the microbiome (2015, background): “While social contact can provide access to beneficial microbes [16 ], harmful bacteria could use the same transmission routes, and both processes are likely to have been at work throughout the evolution of host social behavior.”
- The gut microbiota of insects - diversity in structure and function. (2013, background): “Consistent with these results, antibiotic exposure diminished the microbial gut community of these bees, resulting in high infection loads with the pathogen (Koch & Schmid-Hempel, 2011b).”
- Group living and pathogen infection revisited (2016, neutral): “Cremer S, Armitage SA, Schmid-Hempel P: Social immunity.”
- Defensive microbial symbionts in Hymenoptera (2014, background): “The bacteria are transferred between nestmates via the feces, but the mechanisms underlying the protective activity against C. bombi are not known yet (Koch & Schmid-Hempel 2011).”
- Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee (2012, background): “Recent deep sequencing of 16S rRNA amplicons from guts of individual worker bees has confirmed these results and has further shown that these species make up more than 99% of all bacterial sequences detected in the worker bees’ intestines and that the β-proteobacterium (hereafter, Snodgrassella both”
- Self‐medication in insects: current evidence and future perspectives (2014, background): “…Trypanosomatidae) developed much lower infection loads if they had previously been fed a solution containing faeces from their nestmates (Koch & Schmid-Hempel, 2011), in comparison to control individuals (fed only sugar water) and those that were experimentally inoculated with…”