Micha J Pilz, Fanny L C Loth, Sandra Nolte, Anna M M Thurner, Eva-Maria Gamper, Amélie Anota, Gregor Liegl, Johannes M Giesinger
General population normative values for the EORTC QLQ-C30 by age, sex, and health condition for the French general population
Journal of patient-reported outcomes
past 15 years proportion honey bee hives fail survive winter averaged 30 united states winter hive loss significant negative impacts agriculture economy ecosystems compared factors role honey bee gut microbial communities driving winter hive loss received little attention investigate relationship winter survival honey bee gut microbiome composition 168 honey bees 23 hives nine failed survive winter 2022 found substantial difference abundance community composition honey bee gut microbiomes based hive condition ie winter survival failure overall microbial abundance assessed using quantitative microbiome profiling qmp significantly greater hives survived winter 2022 failed average overall abundance ten bacterial genera also greater surviving hives significant differences alpha diversity based hive condition highly significant difference beta diversity bacterial genera commensalibacter snodgrassella positively associated winter hive survival logistic regression random forest machine learning models pooled asv counts genus data highly predictive winter outcome although model performance decreased samples location hive failures excluded analysis whole results show abundance community composition honey bee gut microbiota associated winter hive loss potentially used diagnostic tool evaluating hive health prior onset winter future work functional characterization honey bee gut microbiomes role winter survival warranted