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Microbiota and Its Importance in Honey Bees
Summary
This review examines the role of microbiota in honey bee health, finding that gut microbiome composition is critical for metabolism, immune function, and protection against pathogens, with environmental stressors including pollution threatening bee microbiome stability.
In recent years, research on human and animal health has emerged as a very important microbiota and microbiome. Microbiota; has important functions in metabolism, immune system, growth and development. In recent years, it has been understood that the microbiota is effective in the protection of bee health in colony so prevent losses in honey bees. Season, flora, food sources, age of the individual, duties in the hive, chemicals used in the fight against parasites and pathogens, and many other factors can be effective on the microbiome of honey bees.
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