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Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees Nancy A. Moran*, Allison K. Hansen, J. Elijah Powell, Zakee L. Sabree Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America Abstract Surveys of 16S rDNA sequences from the honey bee, Apis mellifera, have revealed the presence of eight distinctive bacterial phylotypes in intestinal tracts of adult worker bees. Because previous studies have been limited to relatively few sequences from samples pooled from multipl