Recent papers by members of the Bushfire Recovery Grant team

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Fernandes, K. E., Frost, E. A., Kratz, M., & Carter, D. A. (2024). Pollen products collected from honey bee hives experiencing minor stress have altered fungal communities and reduced antimicrobial properties. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 100(7), fiae091. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae091

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Fernandes, K. E., Dong, A. Z., Levina, A., Cokcetin, N. N., Brooks, P., & Carter, D. A. (2024). Long-term stability and the physical and chemical factors predictive for antimicrobial activity in Australian honey. Plos one, 19(5), e0303095. 

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303095

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Fernandes, K. E., Stanfield, B., Frost, E. A., Shanahan, E. R., Susantio, D., Dong, A. Z., ... & Carter, D. A. (2023). Low levels of hive stress are associated with decreased honey activity and changes to the gut microbiome of resident honey bees. Microbiology Spectrum, 11(4), e00742-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00742-23

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Schell, K. R., Fernandes, K. E., Shanahan, E., Wilson, I., Blair, S. E., Carter, D. A., & Cokcetin, N. N. (2022). The potential of honey as a prebiotic food to re-engineer the gut microbiome toward a healthy state. Frontiers in nutrition, 9, 957932. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.957932

 

Fernandes, K. E., Frost, E. A., Remnant, E. J., Schell, K. R., Cokcetin, N. N., & Carter, D. A. (2022). The role of honey in the ecology of the hive: Nutrition, detoxification, longevity, and protection against hive pathogens. Frontiers in Nutrition, 9, 954170.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.954170

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Guttentag, A., Krishnakumar, K., Cokcetin, N., Hainsworth, S., Elizabeth Harry, E., Carter, D.  (2021) Inhibition of dermatophyte fungi by Australian jarrah honey. Pathogens 10, 194. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10020194

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Guttentag, A., Krishnakumar, K., Cokcetin, N., Elizabeth Harry, E., Carter, D.  (2021) Factors affecting the production and measurement of hydrogen peroxide in bioactive honey samples. Access Microbiology 3(3) https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000198 

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Lu, J., Cokcetin, N., Burke, C.M., Turnbull, L., Liu, M., Carter, D.A., Whitchurch, C.B. and Harry, E.J. (2019)  Honey can inhibit and eliminate biofilms produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa wound isolates. Scientific Reports 9, 18160. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54576-2

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Lehmann, D. M., K. Krishnakumar, K., Batres, M.A., Hakola-Parry, A., Cokcetin, N., Harry, E. and  Carter, D. A. (2019)  A cost-effective colorimetric assay for quantifying hydrogen peroxide in honey. Access Microbiology, 1 (10) e000065.  doi: 10.1099/acmi.0.000065