Our manuscript on the microbiome of a stingless bee hive is out! š¦ š So excited! Hereās a short thread with some findings, going from the assembly of a consistent multi-kingdom microbiome to discussions on host traits that contribute to it. Please take a look and share : ) rdcu.be/eVNFJ
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Nature Communications - Here, the authors characterize the microbiome assembly across an entire stingless bee colony, revealing site-adapted within-hive communities, and showing that nest...
6 - These results highlight host traits and cross-kingdom microbial interactions as key drivers of colony-level microbiome assembly, beautifully illustrated by @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social in the final fig. We hope this guides discussions in microbiome research to bee eco-evo and conservation.
Lilian Caesar
Lilian Caesar
And, big thanks to Julie Johnson @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social for her help with scientific illustration! Take a look into her work, she's terrific!