Honey is a natural product used since ancient times due to its taste, aroma, and therapeutic
properties (antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant activity). The purpose of …

The bee gut microbiota plays an important role in the services the bees pay to the
environment, humans and animals. Alongside, gut-associated microorganisms are …

Soil microbiome characterization is typically achieved with next-generation sequencing
(NGS) techniques. Metabarcoding is very common, and meta-omics is growing in popularity …

The World Health Organization warns that the alarming increase in antibiotic resistant
bacteria will lead to 2.7 million deaths annually due to the lack of effective antibiotic …

Two efficient feather-degrading bacteria were isolated from honeybee samples and
identified as Bacillus sonorensis and Bacillus licheniformis based on 16S rRNA and …

Honey bees are exposed to a diverse variety of microbes in the environment. Many studies
have been carried out on the microbiome of bee gut, beebread, and flower pollen. However …

Abstract The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a vital agricultural pollinator whose
populations are threatened by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor and associated …

Lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria (LAB and Bifido), isolated from the gastrointestinal
tract of Apis mellifera intermissa (BGIT), honey (H), propolis (P) and bee bread (BB) of hives …

Honey bees play a significant role in ecology, producing biologically active substances used
to promote human health. However, unlike humans, the molecular markers indicating honey …

This study aims to determine the prevalence of microorganisms and antibiotic-resistant
microorganisms in beehives located on different plantations in Thailand. Seventeen swabs …