Holobiont urbanism: sampling urban beehives reveals cities’ metagenomes

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    While the processing and sequencing of samples can be high-throughput (with automation, hundreds at a time), gathering samples is still very expensive, labor intensive, and can require mobilizing large numbers of volunteers to get a snapshot of the microbial landscape of a city, such as global City Sampling Day (metasub. org). Setting out to collect a more distributed and comprehensive sample of the urban landscape, following conversations with artists Timo Arnall and Jack Schulze, the authors investigated the potential of using honeybees as proxy sampling mechanisms for the urban microbiome. Australia-Sydney and . . .

     

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