Based on Dr. Nelson's fundamental work, particularly in the area of molecular, cultivation - independent analysis of the structure and function of microbiomes, nowadays researchers understand the human microbiome as an important factor driving human health and investigate links between
changes in microbiome structures and diseases like diabetes or obesity.
Bees treated with chlorothalonil demonstrated the most severe
changes in structure, but all three pesticides affected the
structure of the honey bee gut
microbiome, or the collective genomes of the microorganisms that live
in the guts of honey bees.