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A curated 16S rRNA reference database for the classification of honeybee and bumblebee gut microbiota
Zhang Xue, Li Xing’an, Su Qinzhi, Cao Qina, Li Chenyi, Niu Qingsheng, Zheng Hao
Biodiv Sci    2019, 27 (5): 557-566.   DOI: 10.17520/biods.2019021
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Honey and bumble bees are import pollinators, playing significant roles in the agricultural industry and maintaining the bio-ecosystem balance. Recently, it was found that the bees harbor a simple, yet specific gut microbiota. The normal bee gut microbiota makes essential contributions to host growth, endocrine signaling, and pathogen resistance. With the development of high through-put sequencing technology, researchers can now quickly identify the gut community structure for a low cost. This is helpful for biodiversity, conservation and bee health studies. However, the currently-used 16S rRNA databases are not specific enough to classify the bee gut microbiota properly. Many of the specific bacteria that enrich the gut of Apis cerana are in the genus Apibacter. Here, we isolated Apibacter species from A. cerana collected in five provinces of China, and added them to the current SILVA database. We also curated the nomenclature of some existing sequences and re-classified them in the updated database. Based on the analysis of the 16S rRNA sequencing data from one A. cerana and one Apis mellifera sample, our Bee Gut Microbiota-Database (BGM-Db) offers a more accurate classification of bee gut microbiota at a higher resolution than either the SILVA or Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) database.


Fig. 1 A maximum-likelihood tree of the Apibacter genus from A. cerana based on the near full-length 16S rRNA sequences (1,168 bp). Bootstrap values are indicated at the branching nodes (· > 95%, 〇 > 75%).
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(6)东方蜜蜂肠道菌Apibacter。为增加数据库中Apibacter参考序列的深度, 我们从5个省份的东方蜜蜂个体中分离了96株Apibacter菌, 对其进行接近全长的16S rRNA测序。将测得的序列与数据库中已有的Apibacter 16S rRNA序列进行比对并构建进化树(图1)。系统发育分析结果表明, 东方蜜蜂与熊蜂中的Apibacter在进化树上处于并行分支, 而与西方蜜蜂和大蜜蜂中的序列进化距离较远; 我们分离到的东方蜜蜂Apibacter与Kwong和Moran (2016)从马来西亚东方蜜蜂中分离得到的菌株按照地理位置的不同而聚类在一起, 表明存在宿主与共生Apibacter的共进化现象。而不同省份之间的Apibacter聚类又有交叉, 说明除地理分化的影响外, Apibacter属内又可能进化出多种不同的菌种。我们将测得的东方蜜蜂肠道Apibacter接近全长的序列添加到对蜜蜂其他肠道核心菌的命名校正过的SILVA数据库中, 构建了新的用于蜜蜂肠道菌16S rRNA测序分类的新的数据库, 并命名为BGM-Db。
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