Symbiotic bacterial communities in rainforest fungus-farming ants: evidence for species and colony specificity
| Autor: | Mariana L. Lyra, Maurício Bacci, Paulo S. Oliveira, Mariane U. V. Ronque, Gustavo H. Migliorini |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Rainforest media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Medicine Insect Bacterial Physiological Phenomena 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Article Microbial ecology 03 medical and health sciences Symbiosis Species Specificity RNA Ribosomal 16S Animals lcsh:Science media_common Mutualism (biology) Multidisciplinary biology Host Microbial Interactions Ecology Ants lcsh:R fungi Community structure Sericomyrmex Fungi food and beverages biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition biology.organism_classification 030104 developmental biology lcsh:Q Species richness Entomology Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Web of Science Repositório Institucional da UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) instacron:UNESP Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T20:03:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-06-23 Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Animals may host diverse bacterial communities that can markedly affect their behavioral physiology, ecology, and vulnerability to disease. Fungus-farming ants represent a classical example of mutualism that depends on symbiotic microorganisms. Unraveling the bacterial communities associated with fungus-farming ants is essential to understand the role of these microorganisms in the ant-fungus symbiosis. The bacterial community structure of five species of fungus-farmers (non-leaf-cutters; genera Mycocepurus, Mycetarotes, Mycetophylax, and Sericomyrmex) from three different environments in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest (lowland forest, restinga forest, and sand dunes) was characterized with amplicon-based Illumina sequencing of 16S ribosomal RNA gene. Possible differences in bacterial communities between ants internal to the nest (on the fungus garden) and external foragers were also investigated. Our results on the richness and diversity of associated bacteria provide novel evidence that these communities are host- and colony-specific in fungus-farming ants. Indeed, the bacterial communities associated with external foragers differ among the five species, and among colonies of the same species. Furthermore, bacterial communities from internal ants vs. foragers do not differ or differ only slightly within each ant species. This study highlights the importance of describing ant-associated bacterial communities to better understand this host-bacterial interaction in the social environment of insect colonies and provides the foundation for future studies on the ecological and evolutionary processes that drive the success of fungus-farming ants. Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Programa Posgrad Ecol, CP 6109, BR-13083862 Campinas, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Biociencias, Dept Biodiversidade, Campus Rio Claro, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Programa Posgrad Biol Anim, Campus Sao Jose do Rio Preto, BR-15054000 Sao Jose Do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Ctr Estudos Insetos Sociais, Campus Rio Claro, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Campinas, Dept Biol Anim, CP 6109, BR-13083862 Campinas, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Biociencias, Dept Biodiversidade, Campus Rio Claro, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Programa Posgrad Biol Anim, Campus Sao Jose do Rio Preto, BR-15054000 Sao Jose Do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Ctr Estudos Insetos Sociais, Campus Rio Claro, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil CAPES: 001 FAPESP: 2017/26162-8 FAPESP: 2014/24407-3 CNPq: CNPq 306115/2013-1 CNPq: 302219/2017-0 FAPESP: 2014/23141-1 FAPESP: 2017/16645-1 |
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