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Docta Complutense author Martínez López, Vicente author Ruiz, Carlos author Muñoz Gabaldón, Irene author Ornosa, Concepción author Higes, Mariano author Martín Hernández, Raquel author Rúa, Pilar de la 2023-06-16T14:23:18Z 2023-06-16T14:23:18Z 2021-09-29 0095-3628 10.1007/s00248-021-01854-0 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4901 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01854-0 Insect pollination is crucial for the maintenance of natural and managed ecosystems but the functioning of this ecosystem service is threatened by a worldwide decline of pollinators. Key factors in this situation include the spread and interspecific transmission of pathogens worldwide through the movement of managed pollinators. Research on this field has been mainly conducted in some particular species, while studies assessing the interspecific transmission of pathogens at a community level are scarce. However, this information is pivotal to design strategies to protect pollinators. Herein, we analysed the prevalence of two common microsporidia pathogens of managed honey bees (Nosema ceranae and N. apis) in bee communities of semiarid Mediterranean areas from the Southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Our results confirm the ability of N. ceranae to disperse across wild bee communities in semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems since it was detected in 36 Apoidea species (39% of the sampling; for the first time in nine genera). The prevalence of the pathogen did not show any phylogenetic signal which suggests a superfamily host range of the pathogen or that wild bees may be acting only as vectors of N. ceranae. In addition, N. apis was detected in an Eucera species, which is the second time it has been detected by molecular techniques in a host other than the honey bee. Our study represents the primary assessment of the prevalence of microsporidia at community level in Mediterranean areas and provides outstanding results on the ability of Nosema pathogens to spread across the landscape. eng Detection of Microsporidia in Pollinator Communities of a Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot for Wild Bees journal article URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/73fccb3e-d769-47f0-aad4-1bd8c114a165/download File MD5 d3bf8735ff4821d01b533c67d40de2b1 751241 application/pdf Ornosa-DBEE-DetectionOfMicrosporidiaInPoll.pdf URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/9b016317-cea9-4a7c-99e3-eb3dba73ce1f/download File MD5 93b700409fcbc84aea6c8427f7361bc1 26238 text/plain Ornosa-DBEE-DetectionOfMicrosporidiaInPoll.pdf.txt