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Chemical Diversity in a Stingless Bee–Plant Symbiosis

[Image: see text] Bees are essential pollinators on earth, supporting forest equilibrium and human agriculture. The chemistry of the stingless bee–plant symbiosis is a complex and not completely understood phenomenon. Here, we combined untargeted tandem mass spectrometry, molecular networking, and m...

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Autores principales: Silva-Junior, Eduardo A., Paludo, Camila R., Amaral, Juliano G., Gallon, Marília E., Gobbo-Neto, Leonardo, Nascimento, Fabio S., Lopes, Norberto P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2019
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6751719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31552366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b02096
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author Silva-Junior, Eduardo A.
Paludo, Camila R.
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Gobbo-Neto, Leonardo
Nascimento, Fabio S.
Lopes, Norberto P.
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description [Image: see text] Bees are essential pollinators on earth, supporting forest equilibrium and human agriculture. The chemistry of the stingless bee–plant symbiosis is a complex and not completely understood phenomenon. Here, we combined untargeted tandem mass spectrometry, molecular networking, and multivariate statistical analysis to investigate the chemical diversity in colonies of the stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis. Flavonoids were the most representative and diverse group of plant metabolites detected, indicating the importance of these biologically active natural products to the bees. We unveiled the metabolome, mapped the distribution of plant metabolites in stingless bee colonies, and digitized the chemical data into a public database.
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spelling pubmed-67517192019-09-24 Chemical Diversity in a Stingless Bee–Plant Symbiosis Silva-Junior, Eduardo A. Paludo, Camila R. Amaral, Juliano G. Gallon, Marília E. Gobbo-Neto, Leonardo Nascimento, Fabio S. Lopes, Norberto P. ACS Omega [Image: see text] Bees are essential pollinators on earth, supporting forest equilibrium and human agriculture. The chemistry of the stingless bee–plant symbiosis is a complex and not completely understood phenomenon. Here, we combined untargeted tandem mass spectrometry, molecular networking, and multivariate statistical analysis to investigate the chemical diversity in colonies of the stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis. Flavonoids were the most representative and diverse group of plant metabolites detected, indicating the importance of these biologically active natural products to the bees. We unveiled the metabolome, mapped the distribution of plant metabolites in stingless bee colonies, and digitized the chemical data into a public database. American Chemical Society 2019-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6751719/ /pubmed/31552366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b02096 Text en Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society This is an open access article published under an ACS AuthorChoice License (http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/authorchoice_termsofuse.html) , which permits copying and redistribution of the article or any adaptations for non-commercial purposes.
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