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Nickole Villabona

University of California, IrvineORCID 0000-0001-5269-2270Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 21, 2026

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

Nickole Villabona, Alejandro Vázquez, Jennifer Schlauch…·Tobin J. Hammer

The paper investigates how group size in stingless bees influences the presence of gut symbionts, finding that larger colonies are more likely to harbor specific bacteria.

DOI 10.64898/2026.01.16.699994

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