Standout Papers

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  1. The gut microbiota of insects – diversity in structure and function (2013)
    Philipp Engel, Nancy A. Moran FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  2. Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts (2008)
    Nancy A. Moran, John P. McCutcheon et al. Annual Review of Genetics
  3. Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria (2011)
    John P. McCutcheon, Nancy A. Moran Nature Reviews Microbiology
  4. Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps (2003)
    Kerry M. Oliver, Jacob A. Russell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  5. Accelerated evolution and Muller's rachet in endosymbiotic bacteria. (1996)
    Nancy A. Moran Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  6. The Evolutionary Maintenance of Alternative Phenotypes (1992)
    Nancy A. Moran The American Naturalist
  7. Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits (2009)
    Kerry M. Oliver, Patrick H. Degnan et al. Annual Review of Entomology
  8. Gut microbial communities of social bees (2016)
    Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran Nature Reviews Microbiology
  9. Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee (2012)
    Philipp Engel, Vincent G. Martinson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  10. Deletional bias and the evolution of bacterial genomes (2001)
    Álex Mira, Howard Ochman et al. Trends in Genetics
  11. Microbial Minimalism (2002)
    Nancy A. Moran Cell
  12. Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees (2018)
    Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  13. Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker (2012)
    Vincent G. Martinson, Jamie K. Moy et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  14. A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees (2010)
    Vincent G. Martinson, Bryan N. Danforth et al. Molecular Ecology
  15. Honeybee gut microbiota promotes host weight gain via bacterial metabolism and hormonal signaling (2017)
    Hao Zheng, J. Elijah Powell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  16. GENETICS, PHYSIOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GENUS BUCHNERA: Intracellular Symbionts of Aphids (1995)
    Paul Baumann, Linda C. Baumann et al. Annual Review of Microbiology
  17. Routes of Acquisition of the Gut Microbiota of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera (2014)
    J. Elijah Powell, Vincent G. Martinson et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  18. Antibiotic exposure perturbs the gut microbiota and elevates mortality in honeybees (2017)
    Kasie Raymann, Nancy A. Moran et al. PLoS Biology
  19. Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole (2015)
    Gordon M. Bennett, Nancy A. Moran Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  20. The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects (2013)
    Allison K. Hansen, Nancy A. Moran Molecular Ecology
  21. Dynamic microbiome evolution in social bees (2017)
    Waldan K. Kwong, Hauke Koch et al. Science Advances
  22. The role of the gut microbiome in health and disease of adult honey bee workers (2018)
    Kasie Raymann, Nancy A. Moran Current Opinion in Insect Science
  23. Immune system stimulation by the native gut microbiota of honey bees (2017)
    Waldan K. Kwong, Nancy A. Moran et al. Royal Society Open Science
  24. The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow? (2015)
    Nancy A. Moran, Daniel B. Sloan PLoS Biology
  25. Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts (2014)
    Waldan K. Kwong, Philipp Engel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  26. Division of labor in honey bee gut microbiota for plant polysaccharide digestion (2019)
    Hao Zheng, Julie Perreau et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  27. The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease (2023)
    Erick V. S. Motta, Nancy A. Moran Nature Reviews Microbiology

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Peter E. Smouse 2826 10729 24679 78 43.8k
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Paul D. N. Hebert 11357 19184 23266 558 65.9k
John A. Pickett 14072 6272 2314 542 23.6k

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