Bacillus DNA in fossil bees: an ancient symbiosis?
| Autor: | G O Poinar, M Higby-Schweitzer, Raul J. Cano, K J Pollard, Monica K. Borucki, Hendrik N. Poinar |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Bacterial Molecular Sequence Data Bacillus Polymerase Chain Reaction Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Phylogenetics Animals Symbiosis Phylogeny Bacillus (shape) Genetics Base Sequence Ecology biology Phylogenetic tree Apidae Fossils Bacillus pumilus fungi Nucleic acid sequence Bees Ribosomal RNA biology.organism_classification Dominican amber Research Article Food Science Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 60:2164-2167 |
| ISSN: | 1098-5336 0099-2240 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/aem.60.6.2164-2167.1994 |
| Popis: | We report here the isolation of DNA from abdominal tissue of four extinct stingless bees (Proplebeia dominicana) in Dominican amber, PCR amplification of a 546-bp fragment of the 16S rRNA gene from Bacillus spp., and their corresponding nucleotide sequences. These sequences were used in basic local alignment search tool searches of nonredundant nucleic acid data bases, and the highest scores were obtained with 16S rRNA sequences from Bacillus spp. Phylogenetic inference analysis by the maximum-likelihood method revealed close phylogenetic relationships of the four presumed ancient Bacillus sequences with Bacillus pumilus, B. firmus, B. subtilis, and B. circulans. These four extant Bacillus spp. are commonly isolated from abdominal tissue of stingless bees. The close phylogenetic association of the extracted DNA sequences with these bee colonizers suggests that a similar bee-Bacillus association existed in the extinct species P. dominicana. |
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