Ten years ago next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies appeared on the market.
During the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in terms of speed, read …

Insect guts present distinctive environments for microbial colonization, and bacteria in the
gut potentially provide many beneficial services to their hosts. Insects display a wide range …

Pollinators are a key component of global biodiversity, providing vital ecosystem services to
crops and wild plants. There is clear evidence of recent declines in both wild and …

DNA sequence represents a single format onto which a broad range of biological
phenomena can be projected for high-throughput data collection. Over the past three years …

Nonlethal exposure of honey bees to thiamethoxam (neonicotinoid systemic pesticide)
causes high mortality due to homing failure at levels that could put a colony at risk of …

The gut microbiota can have profound effects on hosts, but the study of these relationships in
humans is challenging. The specialized gut microbial community of honey bees is similar to …

The ectoparasitic honey bee mite Varroa destructor was originally confined to the Eastern
honey bee Apis cerana. After a shift to the new host Apis mellifera during the first half of the …

If one accepts that the fundamental pursuit of genetics is to determine the genotypes that
explain phenotypes, the meteoric increase of DNA sequence information applied toward that …

Background Recent declines in honey bees for crop pollination threaten fruit, nut, vegetable
and seed production in the United States. A broad survey of pesticide residues was …

Impressive progress has been made in the field of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS).
Through advancements in the fields of molecular biology and technical engineering …