| bacterial community associated with worker honeybees (apis mellifera) affected by european foulbrood. | melissococcus plutonius is an entomopathogenic bacterium that causes european foulbrood (efb), a honeybee (apis mellifera l.) disease that necessitates quarantine in some countries. in czechia, positive evidence of efb was absent for almost 40 years, until an outbreak in the krkonose mountains national park in 2015. this occurrence of efb gave us the opportunity to study the epizootiology of efb by focusing on the microbiome of honeybee workers, which act as vectors of honeybee diseases within a ... | 2017 | 28966892 |
| changes in the bacteriome of honey bees associated with the parasite varroa destructor, and pathogens nosema and lotmaria passim. | the honey bee, apis mellifera, is a globally important species that suffers from a variety of pathogens and parasites. these parasites and pathogens may have sublethal effects on their bee hosts via an array of mechanisms, including through a change in symbiotic bacterial taxa. our aim was to assess the influence of four globally widespread parasites and pathogens on the honey bee bacteriome. we examined the effects of the ectoparasitic mite varroa destructor, the fungal pathogens nosema apis an ... | 2017 | 27730366 |
| lactobacillus apinorum sp. nov., lactobacillus mellifer sp. nov., lactobacillus mellis sp. nov., lactobacillus melliventris sp. nov., lactobacillus kimbladii sp. nov., lactobacillus helsingborgensis sp. nov. and lactobacillus kullabergensis sp. nov., isolated from the honey stomach of the honeybee apis mellifera. | we previously discovered a symbiotic lactic acid bacterial (lab) microbiota in the honey stomach of the honeybee apis mellifera. the microbiota was composed of several phylotypes of bifidobacterium and lactobacillus. 16s rrna gene sequence analyses and phenotypic and genetic characteristics revealed that the phylotypes isolated represent seven novel species. one grouped with lactobacillus kunkeei and the others belong to the lactobacillus buchneri and lactobacillus delbrueckii subgroups of lacto ... | 2014 | 24944337 |