Effect of Bacterial and fungal microbiota removal on the survival and development of bryophagous beetles

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F20%3AA2102602" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/20:A2102602 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://academic.oup.com/ee/article-abstract/49/4/902/5854890" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/ee/article-abstract/49/4/902/5854890</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaa060" target="_blank" >10.1093/ee/nvaa060</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effect of Bacterial and fungal microbiota removal on the survival and development of bryophagous beetles
Original language description
Insect microbiota may play a wide range of roles in host physiology. Among others, microbiota can be involved in diet processing or protection against pathogens, both of which are potentially important in bryophagous (moss-feeding) insects, which survive on extreme diets and live in the stable environment of moss clumps suitable for the growth of fungi and bacteria. We treated Cytilus sericeus (Forster, 1771) (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) as a model organism with bactericides and fungicides to test the effect of bacterial and fungal removal on egg hatching and larval development. Furthermore, we supplied larvae with adult feces to determine whether feces is a source of beneficial microbiota or pathogens. Bactericides had a positive effect, but fungicides had a negative effect on beetle fitness, both of which manifested during egg hatching. The feces did not play a positive role. Our conclusions indicate the presence of beneficial fungal microbiota associated with eggs but not transmitted through feces. Based on preliminary cultivation and fungicide tests, Fusarium or Penicillium may be important for suppressing pathogens, but their exact role needs to be further studied.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-08803S" target="_blank" >GA18-08803S: Symbiotic microbiota of insect herbivores: key to understanding of host specificity?</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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