Are you my mother?: When host genetics and gut microbiota tell different phylogenetic stories in the Africanized honey bee hybrid (Apis mellifera scutellata x sspp.)
Kilmer Oliveira Soares, Celso José Bruno de Oliveira, Luis Eduardo Martínez Villegas, Priscylla Carvalho Vasconcelos, Adriana Evangelista Rodrigues, Christopher C. Madden, Vanessa L. Hale
The paper compares gut microbiota of African, European, and Africanized honey bees, finding that despite genetic dominance of African genes in Africanized bees, their gut microbiota is more similar to European bees due to social and environmental transmission.
Microbiology Spectrum · May 28, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology