Strain-level analysis reveals the vertical microbial transmission during the life cycle updates of bumblebee

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第一作者： Su, Qinzhi

作者： Su, Qinzhi;Wang, Qinglin;Mu, Xiaohuan;Meng, Yujie;Hu, Xiaosong;Zheng, Hao;Chen, Hao;Zheng, Li;Zhai, Yifan;Zhang, Xue

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关键词： Bombus terrestris; Apis mellifera; Apis cerana; Gut microbiota; Strain diversity; Vertical transmission; CAZyme

期刊名称：MICROBIOME （ 影响因子：14.652； 五年影响因子：15.679 ）

ISSN： 2049-2618

年卷期： 2021 年 9 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Background: Microbial acquisition and development of the gut microbiota impact the establishment of a healthy host-microbes symbiosis. Compared with other animals, the eusocial bumblebees and honeybees possess a simple, recurring, and similar set of gut microbiota. However, all bee gut phylotypes have high strain-level diversity. Gut communities of different bee species are composed of host-specific groups of strains. The variable genomic regions among strains of the same species often confer critical functional differences, such as carbon source utilization, essential for the natural selection of specific strains. The annual bumblebee colony founded by solitary queens enables tracking the transmission routes of gut bacteria during development stages. Results: Here, we first showed the changes in the microbiome of individual bumblebees across their holometabolous life cycle. Some core gut bacteria persist throughout different stages of development Gut microbiota of newly emerged workers always resembles those of their queens, suggesting a vertical transmission of strains from queens to the newborn workers. We then follow the dynamic changes in the gut community by comparing strain-level metagenomic profiles of queen-worker pairs longitudinally collected across different stages of the nest development Species composition of both queen and worker shifts with the colony's growth, and the queen-to-worker vertical inheritance of specific strains was identified. Finally, comparative metagenome analysis showed clear host-specificity for microbes across different bee hosts. Species from honeybees often possess a higher level of strain variation, and they also exhibited more complex gene repertoires linked to polysaccharide digestion. Our results demonstrate bacterial transmission events in bumblebee, highlighting the role of social interactions in driving the microbiota composition. Conclusions: By the community-wide metagenomic analysis based on the custom genomic database of bee gut bacteria, we reveal strain transmission events at high resolution and the dynamic changes in community structure along with the colony development. The social annual life cycle of bumblebees is key for the acquisition and development of the gut microbiota. Further studies using the bumblebee model will advance our understanding of the microbiome transmission and the underlying mechanisms, such as strain competition and niche selection.

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