Fur microbiome as a putative source of symbiotic bacteria in sucking lice.

ABSTRACT: Symbiosis between insects and bacteria has been established countless times. While it is well known that the symbionts originated from a variety of different bacterial taxa, it is usually difficult to determine their environmental source and a route of their acquisition by the host. In this study, we address this question using a model of Neisseriaceae symbionts in rodent lice. These bacteria established their symbiosis independently with different louse taxa (Polyplax, Hoplopleura, Neohaematopinus), most likely from the same environmental source. We first applied amplicon analysis to screen for candidate source bacterium in the louse environment. Since lice are permanent ectoparasites, often specific to the particular host, we screened various microbiomes associated with three rodent spec

SUBMITTER: Martin Rihova J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436785 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature