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If you do not receive your kit by March 15th, or for any other questions, please feel free to reach out to us at beegutproject@uoguelph.ca.
A huge thank you to all participants for making this project possible!
The Canadian Bee Gut Project aims to improve our understanding of how the “good”, “bad”, and unknown (unculturable or yet-uncultured) microbes found in bees affect their health and disease outcomes, as well as overwintering survival in Canada.
Our goals:
- Coordinate a nationwide sampling of honeybees from diverse commercial Canadian operations and perform unbiased characterization of microbiomes to establish baseline microbiomes.
- Find previously uncharacterized honeybee-associated microbes which could be used for new microbial therapeutic strategies in honeybees.
- Explore the effects of varying honeybee microbiomes or microbial therapeutic strategies on honeybee social castes and behaviour.
Collaboration.
Dedication.
Innovation.