Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota.

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Title
Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota.
Journal
Nature communications
Author(s)
Ellegaard K.M., Engel P.
ISSN
2041-1723 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2041-1723
Publication state
Published
Issued date
25/01/2019
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
10
Number
1
Pages
446
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
The structure and distribution of genomic diversity in natural microbial communities is largely unexplored. Here, we used shotgun metagenomics to assess the diversity of the honey bee gut microbiota, a community consisting of few bacterial phylotypes. Our results show that most phylotypes are composed of sequence-discrete populations, which co-exist in individual bees and show age-specific abundance profiles. In contrast, strains present within these sequence-discrete populations were found to segregate into individual bees. Consequently, despite a conserved phylotype composition, each honey bee harbors a distinct community at the functional level. While ecological differentiation seems to facilitate coexistence at higher taxonomic levels, our findings suggest that, at the level of strains, priority effects during community assembly result in individualized profiles, despite the social lifestyle of the host. Our study underscores the need to move beyond phylotype-level characterizations to understand the function of this community, and illustrates its potential for strain-level analysis.
Keywords
Age Factors, Animals, Bees/microbiology, Bifidobacterium/classification, Bifidobacterium/genetics, Bifidobacterium/isolation & purification, Biological Variation, Individual, DNA, Bacterial/genetics, Firmicutes/classification, Firmicutes/genetics, Firmicutes/isolation & purification, Gammaproteobacteria/classification, Gammaproteobacteria/genetics, Gammaproteobacteria/isolation & purification, Gastrointestinal Microbiome/genetics, Genetic Variation, Metagenomics, Microbial Consortia/genetics, Phylogeny, Symbiosis/physiology
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