Honey bee gut metagenome

Honey bee are key pollinators and food providers worldwide and models for the highly social insects. The scope of the project is to sequence DNA and RNA from bees carrying known or putative pathogens, from individual isolated pathogens, and from uncultured organisms (predominantly bacterial but also eukaryotic) residing in the gut or fecal material. The infected bee data will sometimes be paired with uninfected bee data as controls. The purpose is to provide a public resource for access to this sequence data under a single umbrella project. The total number of data sets is open ended at this point.

蜜蜂是全球关键的传粉者与食物供给者，同时也是研究高度社会性昆虫的模式生物。本项目的研究范畴为：对携带已知或疑似病原体的蜜蜂、单独分离的病原体，以及栖息于蜜蜂肠道或粪便中的未培养微生物（主要为细菌，亦包含真核生物）开展DNA与RNA测序。感染蜜蜂的测序数据有时会搭配未感染蜜蜂的对照数据作为对照。本项目旨在构建统一的公共资源库，以供研究者获取该类测序数据。截至目前，数据集的总数量尚未设限。