Shotgun metagenomics of honey DNA: Evaluation of a methodological approach to describe a multi-kingdom honey bee derived environmental DNA signature.
Honey bees are considered large-scale monitoring tools due to their environmental exploration and foraging activities.Traces of these activities can be recovered in the honey that also may reflect the hive ecological micro-conditions in which it has been produced.This study applied a next generation sequencing platform (Ion Torrent) for shotgun met