肠道微生物群有助于蜜蜂寻食强度的变化
Cassondra L Vernier1, Lan Anh Nguyen1, Tim Gernat1
1Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States.
The ISME journal
|February 27, 2024
概括
肠道微生物在蜜蜂的食行为中起着因果作用. 特定的细菌影响社会昆虫的分工和适应性特征.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 行为生态学 行为生态学
- 昆虫科学 昆虫科学 昆虫科学
背景情况:
- 肠道微生物群影响宿主行为,但它们在适应性特征中的作用未得到充分研究.
- 欧社会昆虫为研究肠道微生物和由于简单的微生物群和劳动分工而导致的行为变异提供了一个模型.
研究的目的:
- 研究肠道微生物在区分欧洲蜜蜂 (Apis mellifera) 食行为的因果关系.
- 探索肠道微生物群落如何与蜜蜂的任务经验和分工有关.
主要方法:
- 将母蜂与食蜜蜂的肠道微生物群落进行比较.
- 操纵殖民地人口统计和食经验,以评估微生物社区的变化.
- 进行单个微生物注射以确定对食强度的因果影响.
主要成果:
- 在母蜂和捕食蜜蜂之间观察到肠道微生物结构的显著差异.
- 特定的微生物,包括Bifidobacterium小行星,Bombilactobacillus mellis和Lactobacillus melliventris,表现出不同的丰富性.
- 任务经验影响了肠道微生物组成,用这些微生物接种疫苗影响了食强度.
结论:
- 肠道微生物有助于蜜蜂的分工.
- 肠道微生物在调节宿主行为特征变异方面发挥着作用,特别是食行为.
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