Gut microbiota of Brazilian Melipona stingless bees: Dominant members and their localization in different gut regions

• Amanda Tristao Santini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Tristao Santini, Alan Emanuel Silva Cerqueira

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amandatsantini@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil, Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9604-6243

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• Alan Emanuel Silva Cerqueira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda Tristao Santini, Alan Emanuel Silva Cerqueira

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil, Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Nancy A. Moran,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Helder Canto Resende,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biological and Health Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Florestal, MG, Brazil

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• Weyder Cristiano Santana,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

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• Sergio Oliveira de Paula,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

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• Cynthia Canedo da Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

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