Termites and subsocial roaches inherited many bacterial-borne carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZyme) from their common ancestor

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07146-w" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07146-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07146-w" target="_blank" >10.1038/s42003-024-07146-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Termites and subsocial roaches inherited many bacterial-borne carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZyme) from their common ancestor

Original language description

Termites digest dead vegetal matter at various stages of decomposition with the help of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes (CAZymes) produced by their symbiotic gut microbes. Many microbial lineages endemic to termite gut have cospeciated with termites for up to ~150 million years. Whether CAZymes were already encoded in their genomes and passed down to modern termites or, alternatively, acquired more recently from microbes not associated with termite gut, is unclear. We used 196 gut metagenomes to investigate the evolution of termite gut bacterial CAZymes and search for cophylogenetic patterns with termites. In the reconstructed CAZyme gene trees, we found 420 termite-specific clusters of CAZyme sequences belonging to 81 CAZyme gene families unique to the termite gut environment, including 392 showing strong cophylogenetic patterns with termites like those found with bacterial marker genes. Of the 420 clusters, 131 included at least one CAZyme sequence found in the gut of Cryptocercus, the sister group of termites, or Mastotermes, the termite genus sister to all other termites. These results suggest many CAZymes present in modern termites have been associated with termites since their origin. While some CAZymes may have been acquired by termite gut bacteria more recently, our results indicate that termites rely upon many unique bacterial CAZymes found in no other environments than their gut to digest wood.

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

10600 - Biological sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY

ISSN

2399-3642

e-ISSN

2399-3642

Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

001349584600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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