The Microbiota of Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus Ticks Collected from a Highly Populated City of Eastern Europe.

Autor: Elias L; Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 4467 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA., Hearn AM; Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 4467 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA., Blazier JC; Texas A&M Institute for Genomics Sciences and Society, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA., Rogovska YV; Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 4467 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA., Wang J; Department of Statistics and Finance, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China., Li S; Statistical Collaboration Center, Department of Statistics, College of Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA., Liu S; Statistical Collaboration Center, Department of Statistics, College of Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA., Nebogatkin IV; I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine., Rogovskyy AS; Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 4467 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA. arogovskyy@tamu.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Microbial ecology [Microb Ecol] 2022 Nov; Vol. 84 (4), pp. 1072-1086. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 12.
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-021-01921-6
Abstrakt: Recent investigations have examined, through sequencing the V6 region of 16S rRNA gene, the microbiota of questing Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks collected from rural areas of Central (Dnipropetrovs'k (region D) and Poltava (region P)) and Northeastern (Kharkiv (region K)) Ukraine. In addition to defining the bacterial microbiota of both tick species, the previous investigations also revealed a high degree of inter-sex and inter-regional variations in the tick microbiota. As a continuation of the two studies, the present investigation has analyzed individual microbiota of questing I. ricinus (n = 50) and D. reticulatus (n = 50) ticks originating from Kyiv, the largest city of Ukraine. The Kyiv tick microbiota were compared between males and females for each tick species. Additionally, a cross-regional analysis was performed to compare the microbiota of Kyiv ticks to those from regions D, K, and P. Numerous statistically significant inter-sex and inter-regional variations were detected when alpha diversity, beta diversity, the bacterial relative and differential abundances were assessed. The overall results demonstrated that the microbiota of Kyiv ticks were statistically different compared to the ticks of the other three regions. Besides existing climatic and geographical differences between the four regions, the authors hypothesize that various anthropogenic factors of the megapolis (e.g., animal species translocation, land management, ecology) could have contributed to the distinct microbiota of Kyiv ticks observed in this study.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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