Bacterial communities in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) colonies characterized by 16S-amplicon 454 pyrosequencing
We quantified the bacterial communities associated with the ants in their natural environment with tag-encoded titanium amplicon pyrosequencing for the 16S gene including the V1-V3 variable regions (Dowd et al., 2008).