Host genetic background and environment have different effects on the establishment and structure of the adult worker honey bee gut microbiota

• Breven Stark,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9953-9240

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• Gene E. Robinson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gene E. Robinson, Cassondra L. Vernier

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4828-4068

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• Cassondra L. Vernier

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gene E. Robinson, Cassondra L. Vernier

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: vernierc@uwstout.edu

  Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Biology Department, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7381-3833

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