A5073036004- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Insect behavior and control techniques
Indiana University Bloomington
2019-2023
Indiana University
2022
Honey bees are important pollinators of many major crops and add billions dollars annually to the US economy through their services. Recent declines in health honey bee have startled researchers lay people alike as agriculture’s most pollinator. One factor that may influence colony is microbial community. Although worker guts a characteristic community bee-specific microbes, queen digestive tracts colonized predominantly by single acetic acid bacterium tentatively named ‘ Parasaccharibacter...
The intracellular bacterium
Bombella apis occupies a variety of distinct niches within honey bee hive, including queen guts, royal jelly, and larval food. In an effort to better understand its evolution identify signatures association, we sequenced strain isolated from hive stores. This genome is 2,086,308 bp long contains 1,975 protein-coding genes.
Abstract Honey bees are important pollinators of many major crops and add billions dollars annually to the US economy through their services. Recent declines in health honey bee have startled researchers lay people alike as agriculture’s most pollinator. One factor that may influence colony is microbial community. Although worker guts a characteristic community bee-specific microbes, queen digestive tracts colonized predominantly by single acetic acid bacterium tentatively named...
The genus Saccharibacter is currently understudied, with only one described species, floricola , isolated from a flower. In an effort to better understand the microbes that come in contact native bee pollinators, we and sequenced four additional strains of bees genera Melissodes Anthophora . These genomes range size 2,104,494 2,316,791 bp (mean, 2,246,664 bp) contain between 1,860 2,167 2,060) protein-coding genes.
Abstract Honey bees, the world’s most significant agricultural pollinator, have suffered dramatic losses in last few decades (1,2). These are largely due to synergistic effects of multiple stressors, pervasive which is limited nutrition (3–5). The poor damaging developing larvae honey who mature into workers unable meet needs their colony (6–8). It therefore essential that we better understand nutritional landscape experienced by bee larvae. In this study, characterize metabolic capabilities...