EcologybioRxivPreprint
Cooperative host-microbe metabolism of a plant toxin in bees
E. Motta, A. Gage, T. E. Smith…·N. Moran
This study shows that bees and their gut microbiota cooperatively metabolize amygdalin, a plant toxin, with microbiota facilitating full degradation into hydrogen cyanide.
DOI 10.1101/2022.08.25.505265