Viruses are omnipresent, yet the knowledge on drivers of viral prevalence in wild host
populations is often limited. Biotic factors, such as sympatric managed host species, as well …

Over the past few decades, honey bees have been facing an increasing number of
stressors. Beyond individual stress factors, the synergies between them have been identified …

Snodgrassella is a genus of Betaproteobacteria that lives in the gut of honeybees (Apis spp.)
and bumblebees (Bombus spp). It is part of a conserved microbiome that is composed of a …

Background To understand mechanisms of adaptation and plasticity of pollinators and other
insects a better understanding of diversity and function of their key symbionts is required …

The present study aimed to characterise the bacterial, fungal and parasite gut community of
the invasive bee Megachile sculpturalis sampled from native (Japan) and invaded (USA and …

Stress resilience is defined as the ability to rebound to a homeostatic state after exposure to
a perturbation. Organisms modulate various physiological mediators to respond to …

Yeast–insect interactions are one of the most interesting long‐standing relationships whose
research has contributed to our understanding of yeast biodiversity and their industrial …

Dietary change influenced the life-history traits, nutritional utilization, and midgut serine
proteinases in the larvae of the domesticated polyphagous S. ricini, transferred from R …

Aims Diets and parasites influence the gut bacterial symbionts of bumble bees, but potential
interactive effects remain overlooked. The main objective of this study was to assess the …

Bumblebees play an important ecological economic role as pollinators in nature and
agriculture. For reasons of biosecurity, many countries promote the cultivation of native …