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Priority effects determine community composition at the strain level in the honeybee gut microbiota
Aiswarya Prasad, Gonçalo Santos-Matos, Alexandra Szigeti…·Philipp Engel
The paper tests priority effects in honeybee gut microbiota by sequentially colonizing bees with different strain compositions and finds that firstcomer strains dominate communities.
DOI 10.1101/2025.11.22.689826