Microbial communities of stored product mites: variation by species and population

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027006%3A_____%2F21%3A10149606" target="_blank" >RIV/00027006:_____/21:10149606 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41210/21:88584

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/248/volumes-and-issues/81-2" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/journal/248/volumes-and-issues/81-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01581-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00248-020-01581-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Microbial communities of stored product mites: variation by species and population

Original language description

Arthropod-associated microorganisms are important because they affect host fitness, protect hosts from pathogens, and influence the host&apos;s ability to vector pathogens. Stored product mites (Astigmata) often establish large populations in various types of food items, damaging the food by direct feeding and introducing contaminants, including their own bodies, allergen-containing feces, and associated microorganisms. Here we access the microbial structure and abundance in rearing diets, eggs, feces fraction, and mite bodies of 16 mite populations belonging to three species (Carpoglyphus lactis, Acarus siro, and Tyrophagus putrescentiae) using quantitative PCR and 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene amplicon sequencing. The mite microbiomes had a complex structure dominated by the following bacterial taxa (OTUs): (a) intracellular symbionts of the genera Cardinium and Wolbachiain the mite bodies and eggs; (b) putative gut symbionts of the genera Solitalea, Bartonella, and Sodalis abundant in mite bodies and also present in mite feces; (c) feces-associated or environmental bacteria of the genera Bacillus, Staphylococcus, and Kocuria in the diet, mite bodies, and feces. Interestingly and counterintuitively, the differences between microbial communities in various conspecific mite populations were higher than those between different mite species. To explain some of these differences, we hypothesize that the intracellular bacterial symbionts can affect microbiome composition in mite bodies, causing differences between microbial profiles. Microbial profiles differed between various sample types, such as mite eggs, bodies, and the environment (spent growth medium-SPGM). Low bacterial abundances in eggs may result in stochastic effects in parent-offspring microbial transmission, except for the intracellular symbionts. Bacteria in the rearing diet had little effect on the microbial community structure in SPGM and mite bodies. Mite fitness was positively correlated with bacterial abundance in SPGM and negatively correlated with bacterial abundances in mite bodies. Our study demonstrates critical host-microbe interactions, affecting all stages of mite growth and leading to alteration of the environmental microbiome. Correlational evidence based on absolute quantitation of bacterial 16S rRNA gene copies suggests that mite-associated microorganisms are critical for modulating important pest properties of mites by altering population growth.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-09998S" target="_blank" >GA19-09998S: Do intracellular parasitic bacteria Cardinium and Wolbachia manipulate through coprophagy horizontal transfer of gut bacteria in saprophagous mites?</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Microbial Ecology

ISSN

0095-3628

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

81

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

506-522

UT code for WoS article

000565035800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85089897467