Table 1.
Common honey bee gut bacterial species groups are ubiquitous and detected by multiple approaches.
Table 2.
Mattila et al. (2012) dataset pyrotag processing summary.
Figure 1.
Relative abundances of the typical bee-associated bacterial species in the Mattila et al. (2012) dataset.
“Other” includes the CFB-1 species group, which was uncommon in all samples.
Table 3.
Many of the most active taxa from the Mattila et al. [15] study are identical to known bee species groups.
Figure 2.
Analyses comparing microbiota between colonies with singly mated and multiply mated queens.
(A) NMS ordination plot showing the two axes representing most of the variation among honey bee gut communities (N = 20). Samples S5 and S7 were omitted as outliers. (B) Species accumulation curves for the two treatments. Dotted lines indicate confidence intervals (±2 SD) for species and distance curves.
Figure 3.
Relationship between Bifidobacterium and putative pathogens in the Mattila et al. (2012) dataset.
Putative pathogens include Enterobacteriaceae and a known larval pathogen, Melissococcus plutonius.