New study on honeybee gut microbiota!
It shows how priority effects allow first-arriving strains to dominate their niche, creating unique microbial profiles even in identical environments. Cool Study!
@aiswarya.bsky.social, @pengellab.bsky.social, @dmf-unil.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Abstract. Gut microbial communities often differ at the strain level among individual hosts, but the mechanisms driving this variation remain poorly unders