Research ArticleORGANISMAL BIOLOGY
The gut microbiome defines social group membership in honey bee colonies
- View ORCID ProfileCassondra L. Vernier1,*,
- View ORCID ProfileIris M. Chin1,
- View ORCID ProfileBoahemaa Adu-Oppong2,
- View ORCID ProfileJoshua J. Krupp3,
- View ORCID ProfileJoel Levine3,
- View ORCID ProfileGautam Dantas2,4,5,6 and
- View ORCID ProfileYehuda Ben-Shahar1,†
- 1Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- 2Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- 3Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
- 4Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- 5Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- 6Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- ↵†Corresponding author. Email: benshahary{at}wustl.edu.
↵* Present address: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
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Science Advances 14 Oct 2020:
Vol. 6, no. 42, eabd3431
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd3431
Vol. 6, no. 42, eabd3431
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd3431
Cassondra L. Vernier
1Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Iris M. Chin
1Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Boahemaa Adu-Oppong
2Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Joshua J. Krupp
3Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Joel Levine
3Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Gautam Dantas
2Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
4Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
5Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
6Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Yehuda Ben-Shahar
1Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.