Friday, September 22, 2017 3:45 p.m.
Caspary Auditorium
Nancy A. Moran, Ph.D.
Leslie Surginer Endowed Professor
Department of Integrative Biology
University of Texas
The evolution and function of gut communities in social bees
Recommended Readings:
March 29, 2017. In Certain Social Bees, Gut Microbiomes Follow Phylogeny. TheScientist
.Kwong, Waldan K.; Moran, Nancy A. (2017). Gut microbial communities of social bees. NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY. 14 (6): 374-384
Kwong, Waldan K; Medina, Luis A; Koch, Hauke; et al. (2017). Dynamic microbiome evolution in social bees. SCIENCE ADVANCES. 3 (3): e1600513
Powell, Elijah; Ratnayeke, Nalin; Moran, Nancy A. (2016). Strain diversity and host specificity in a specialized gut symbiont of honeybees and bumblebees. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY. 25 (18): 4461-4471
Engel, Philipp; Moran, Nancy A. (2013). The gut microbiota of insects – diversity in structure and function. FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEW. 37 (5): 699-735
Schloissnig, Siegfried; Arumugam, Manimozhiyan; Sunagawa, Shinichi; et al. (2013). Genomic variation landscape of the human gut microbiome. NATURE. 493 (7430): 45-50
Tian, Baoyu; Fadhil, Nibal H.; Powell, J. Elijah; et al. (2012). Long-Term Exposure to Antibiotics Has Caused Accumulation of Resistance Determinants in the Gut Microbiota of Honeybees. MBIO. 3 (6): e00377-12