Habitat-specific variation in gut microbial communities and pathogen prevalence in bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris)

• L. Bosmans,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Campus De Nayer, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5119-2669

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• M. I. Pozo,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Plant Conservation and Population Biology, Biology Department, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

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• C. Verreth,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Campus De Nayer, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

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• S. Crauwels,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Campus De Nayer, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

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• L. Wilberts,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Campus De Nayer, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5582-8767

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• I. S. Sobhy,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Campus De Nayer, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

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• F. Wäckers,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Biobest Group, Westerlo, Belgium

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• H. Jacquemyn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Plant Conservation and Population Biology, Biology Department, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

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• B. Lievens

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bart.lievens@kuleuven.be

  Affiliation Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Campus De Nayer, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

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