Evolution of the honey bee gut microbiome through bacterial diversification

Project Information

MicroBeeOme

Grant agreement ID: 714804

DOI 10.3030/714804

Project closed

EC signature date 19 October 2016

Start date 1 March 2017

End date 31 August 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 462,00

EU contribution € 1 499 462,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE
Switzerland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Honey bees harbor a diverse gut virome engaging in nested strain-level interactions with the microbiota

Author(s): Germán Bonilla-Rosso, Théodora Steiner, Fabienne Wichmann, Evan Bexkens, Philipp Engel
Published in: PNAS, Issue 00278424, 2020, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000228117

The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees

Author(s): Joanito Liberti, Tomas Kay, Andrew Quinn, Lucie Kesner, Erik T. Frank, Amélie Cabirol, Thomas O. Richardson, Philipp Engel & Laurent Keller
Published in: Nature Ecology and Evolution, Issue 2397334X, 2022, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01840-w

Vast Differences in Strain-Level Diversity in the Gut Microbiota of Two Closely Related Honey Bee Species

Author(s): Kirsten M. Ellegaard; Shota Suenami; Ryo Miyazaki; Ryo Miyazaki; Philipp Engel
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 09609822, 2020, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.070

Niche partitioning facilitates coexistence of closely related honey bee gut bacteria

Author(s): Silvia Brochet, Andrew Quinn, Ruben AT Mars, Nicolas Neuschwander, Uwe Sauer, Philipp Engel
Published in: elife, Issue 2050084x, 2021, ISSN 2050-084x
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.68583

Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota

Author(s): Kirsten M. Ellegaard, Philipp Engel
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08303-0

Genomic changes underlying host specialization in the bee gut symbiont Lactobacillus Firm5

Author(s): Kirsten M. Ellegaard, Silvia Brochet, German Bonilla‐Rosso, Olivier Emery, Natasha Glover, Noushin Hadadi, Kamil S. Jaron, Jan R. Meer, Marc Robinson‐Rechavi, Vladimir Sentchilo, Florian Tagini, Philipp Engel
Published in: Molecular Ecology, 2019, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15075

The gut microbiome is associated with behavioural task in honey bees

Author(s): J. C. Jones, C. Fruciano, J. Marchant, F. Hildebrand, S. Forslund, P. Bork, P. Engel, W. O. H. Hughes
Published in: Insectes Sociaux, Issue 65/3, 2018, Page(s) 419-429, ISSN 0020-1812
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-018-0624-9

Functional roles and metabolic niches in the honey bee gut microbiota

Author(s): Germán Bonilla-Rosso, Philipp Engel
Published in: Current Opinion in Microbiology, Issue 43, 2018, Page(s) 69-76, ISSN 1369-5274
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.12.009

New Reference Genome Sequences for 17 Bacterial Strains of the Honey Bee Gut Microbiota

Author(s): Kirsten M. Ellegaard, Philipp Engel
Published in: Microbiology Resource Announcements, Issue 7/3, 2018, ISSN 2576-098X
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/mra.00834-18

Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut

Author(s): Lucie Kešnerová, Ruben A. T. Mars, Kirsten M. Ellegaard, Michaël Troilo, Uwe Sauer, Philipp Engel
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 15/12, 2017, Page(s) e2003467, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2003467

Mild chronic exposure to pesticides alters physiological markers of honey bee health without perturbing the core gut microbiota

Author(s): Hanine Almasri, Joanito Liberti, Jean-Luc Brunet, Philipp Engel & Luc P. Belzunces
Published in: Scientific reports, Issue 20452322, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08009-2

Gut microbiota structure differs between honeybees in winter and summer

Author(s): Lucie Kešnerová; Olivier Emery; Michaël Troilo; Joanito Liberti; Berra Erkosar; Philipp Engel
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 17517362, 2020, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0568-8