Impact of antibiotics and natural feed additives on the microbial community of the honeybee

The honeybee gut is an ecological niche that has only recently been explored with advanced molecular techniques. It is known that the intestinal microbiota in honeybees is relatively simple and stable, to the extent that the greatest variations in its composition, post perturbations, are found in the proportions of some core microbial groups, rather than in the presence or absence of specific microbial taxa. Lately, numerous researches on livestock have shown the negative effects of antibiotics on the intestinal microbiota, filling a knowledge gap in the microbiology research. The present project aims at contributing to an improvement of knowledge on antibiotic and bio-products medicaments on the gut microbiota of honeybees through comparing the impact of three Antibiotics and 3 Bio-products administration.