Projects

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  Cross-feeding mutualism in the honey bee larval microbiome

  Seed Project

  This study investigates the mutualistic relationship between two bacterial families in honey bees, focusing on how bee cross-feeding enhances the growth of honey bee larvae.

Publications

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  Miller et al., 2026

  Miller, D.L., Caesar, L., Ganote, C., López-Madrigal, S., Rice, D.W., Robinson, C.R.P., Seawright, A.M., Lewis, J.P., & Newton, I.L.G. (2026). Nested connections: Local phage and broad plasmid sharing in the honey bee mobilome. bioRxiv. 

  https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.31.685865