Bacterial communities of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes differ between crop and midgut tissues.

ABSTRACT: Microbiota studies of Aedes aegypti and other mosquitoes generally focus on the bacterial communities found in adult female midguts. However, other compartments of the digestive tract maintain communities of bacteria which remain almost entirely unstudied. For example, the Dipteran crop is a food storage organ, but few studies have looked at the microbiome of crops in mosquitoes, and only a single previous study has investigated the crop in Ae. aegypti. In this study, we used both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods to compare the bacterial communities in midguts and crops of laboratory reared Ae. aegypti. Both methods revealed a trend towards higher abundance, but also higher variability, of bacteria in the midgut than the crop. When present, bacteria from the genus Elizabet

SUBMITTER: Villegas LEM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10085046 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature