Patrick Maes

TL;DR: The crop microbial environment is influenced by worker task, and may function in both decontamination and inoculation, concluding that the crop taxa at low abundance include core hindgut bacteria in transit to their primary niche, and potential pathogens or food spoilage organisms seemingly vectored from the pollination environment.

TL;DR: The results reveal that many bacteria prevalent in beebread and the crop are also found in floral nectar, suggesting frequent horizontal transmission, and do not support the core crop bacterial community hypothesized by recent studies.

TL;DR: It is concluded that stored pollen is not evolved for microbially mediated nutrient conversion, but is a preservative environment due primarily to added honey, nectar, bee secretions and properties of pollen itself.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that typically occurring alterations in diet quality play a significant role in colony health and the establishment of a dysbiotic gut microbiome and a systemic host effect.

TL;DR: Honey bee-derived Alpha 2.2 bacteria are not gut bacteria but are prolific in the crop-HG-RJ-larva niche, passed to the developing brood through nurse worker feeding behavior, and the name Parasaccharibacter apium is proposed for this bacterial symbiont of bees in the genus Apis.