About the Authors

Víctor Manuel Tibatá

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Andrés Sanchez

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Evan Palmer-Young

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bee Research Lab, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

Howard Junca

Roles Supervision

Affiliation RG Microbial Ecology, Div. Ecogenomics & Holobionts–Microbiomas Foundation, Chia, Colombia

Victor Manuel Solarte

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Shayne Madella

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bee Research Lab, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

Fernando Ariza

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Judith Figueroa

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Grupos de Investigación AYNI–Ciencia y Tecnología Apícola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Miguel Corona

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Miguel.Corona@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Bee Research Lab, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.