Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota
| Autor: | Ellegaard, Kirsten M., Engel, Philipp |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Bacterial 0301 basic medicine Science Microbial Consortia Firmicutes General Physics and Astronomy 02 engineering and technology Gut flora complex mixtures Article General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences Phylogenetics Abundance (ecology) Animals Taxonomic rank lcsh:Science Symbiosis Phylogeny Phylotype Biological Variation Individual Multidisciplinary biology Host (biology) fungi Age Factors Genetic Variation General Chemistry Honey bee respiratory system Bees 15. Life on land 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology biology.organism_classification Gastrointestinal Microbiome 030104 developmental biology Metagenomics Evolutionary biology behavior and behavior mechanisms lcsh:Q Bifidobacterium 0210 nano-technology human activities Bees/microbiology Bifidobacterium/classification Bifidobacterium/genetics Bifidobacterium/isolation & purification DNA Bacterial/genetics Firmicutes/classification Firmicutes/genetics Firmicutes/isolation & purification Gammaproteobacteria/classification Gammaproteobacteria/genetics Gammaproteobacteria/isolation & purification Gastrointestinal Microbiome/genetics Microbial Consortia/genetics Symbiosis/physiology Gammaproteobacteria |
| Zdroj: | Nature Communications Nature communications, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 446 Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-019-08303-0 |
| Popis: | The structure and distribution of genomic diversity in natural microbial communities is largely unexplored. Here, we used shotgun metagenomics to assess the diversity of the honey bee gut microbiota, a community consisting of few bacterial phylotypes. Our results show that most phylotypes are composed of sequence-discrete populations, which co-exist in individual bees and show age-specific abundance profiles. In contrast, strains present within these sequence-discrete populations were found to segregate into individual bees. Consequently, despite a conserved phylotype composition, each honey bee harbors a distinct community at the functional level. While ecological differentiation seems to facilitate coexistence at higher taxonomic levels, our findings suggest that, at the level of strains, priority effects during community assembly result in individualized profiles, despite the social lifestyle of the host. Our study underscores the need to move beyond phylotype-level characterizations to understand the function of this community, and illustrates its potential for strain-level analysis. The structure and distribution of strain-level diversity in host-associated bacterial communities is largely unexplored. Here, Ellegaard and Engel analyze strain level diversity of the honey bee gut microbiota, showing that bees from the same colony differ in strain but not phylotype composition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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