Antagonistic interactions between honey bee bacterial symbionts and implications for disease |
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Authors: | Jay D Evans Tamieka-Nicole Armstrong |
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Institution: | (1) USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, BARC-East Bldg. 476, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA |
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Abstract: | Background Honey bees, Apis mellifera, face many parasites and pathogens and consequently rely on a diverse set of individual and group-level defenses to prevent
disease. One route by which honey bees and other insects might combat disease is through the shielding effects of their microbial
symbionts. Bees carry a diverse assemblage of bacteria, very few of which appear to be pathogenic. Here we explore the inhibitory
effects of these resident bacteria against the primary bacterial pathogen of honey bees, Paenibacillus larvae. |
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