Claim · model-written summary
Bees added the honey bee symbionts Bombella, Frischella and Gilliamella to the new pollen microbiota.
- Taxon
- Brassica napus
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Brassica napuse0 - Interactor
- Bombella, Frischella, GilliamellaGilliamellaFrischellaBombellae3symbiont
- Outcome
- new pollen microbiotae4
Verbatim
e0“Studied species: Brassica napus L., Apis mellifera L.”
e3“by adding honey bee symbionts such as Bombella, Frischella, Gilliamella and Snodgrassella”
e4“bee pathogens as Spiroplasma and nectar dwelling Lactobacillus to the new pollen microbiota”
Title
Honey bees change the microbiota of pollen
Alberto Prado; Matthieu Barret; Bernard E. Vaissière; et al. Botanical Sciences 2022. doi:10.17129/botsci.3125
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Honey bees working Brassica napus pollen increased its bacterial diversity compared with clean pollen.
- Observation Bees added the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella to the new pollen microbiota.
- Observation Bees added the bee pathogen Spiroplasma to the new pollen microbiota.
- Observation Bees added nectar-dwelling Lactobacillus to the new pollen microbiota.
- Mechanism The bee gut is an important source of inoculum of the corbicular pollen microbiota of Brassica napus.