New insight into the bark beetle ips typographus bacteriome reveals unexplored diversity potentially beneficial to the host.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ips typographus (European spruce bark beetle) is the most destructive pest of spruce forests in Europe. As for other animals, it has been proposed that the microbiome plays important roles in the biology of bark beetles. About the bacteriome, there still are many uncertainties regarding the taxonomical composition, insect-bacteriome interactions, and their potential roles in the beetle ecology. Here, we aim to deep into the ecological functions and taxonomical composition of I. typographus associated bacteria.

Results

We assessed the metabolic potential of a collection of isolates obtained from different life stages of I. typographus beetles. All strains showed the capacity to hydrolyse one or more complex polysaccharides into simpler molecules, which may provide

SUBMITTER: Peral-Aranega E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10257263 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature