09/20/2019
After more than a decade of crushing declines in the honey bee population worldwide, whole colonies of one of our most important pollinators are disappearing at unsustainable rates.
Svjetlana Vojvodic, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Rowan University, believes that one part of the solution might be found in an unexpected place: inside the gut of the honey bee.
Could gut bacteria known as a gut microbiome hold the key to fending off colony-killing pathogens?
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Researchers in the Social Insect Lab at Rowan University are studying whether gut bacteria play a role in fending off pathogens that threaten the honey bee population.