Diverse laboratory colonies of Aedes aegypti harbor the same adult midgut bacterial microbiome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Host-associated microbes, collectively known as the microbiota, play an important role in the biology of multicellular organisms. In mosquito vectors of human pathogens, the gut bacterial microbiota influences vectorial capacity and has become the subject of intense study. In laboratory studies of vector biology, genetic effects are often inferred from differences between geographically and genetically diverse colonies of mosquitoes that are reared in the same insectary. It is unclear, however, to what extent genetic effects can be confounded by uncontrolled differences in the microbiota composition among mosquito colonies. To address this question, we used 16S metagenomics to compare the midgut bacterial microbiome of six laboratory colonies of Aedes aegypti recently de

SUBMITTER: Dickson LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5870067 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature