Microbial community profiling and culturing reveal functional groups of bacteria associated with Thai commercial stingless worker bees (Tetragonula pagdeni)

• Chainarong Sinpoo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Ammarin In-on,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Program, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Bang Khun Thian Campus), Bang Khun Thian, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Nuttapol Noirungsee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Korrawat Attasopa,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Panuwan Chantawannakul,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Veeranan Chaimanee,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agro-Industrial Biotechnology, Maejo University Phrae Campus, Rong Kwang, Phrae, Thailand

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• Patcharin Phokasem,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Tial Cung Ling,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Witoon Purahong ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: witoon.purahong@ufz.de (WP); terd.dis@cmu.ac.th (TD)

  Affiliation Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4113-6428

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• Terd Disayathanoowat

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: witoon.purahong@ufz.de (WP); terd.dis@cmu.ac.th (TD)

  Affiliation Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6416-2266

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