Interspecific variation and functional traits of the gut microbiome in spiders from the wild: The largest effort so far.

ABSTRACT: Spiders being one of the most diverse group in phylum arthropod are of great importance due to their role as predators, silk producer, and in medicinal applications. Spiders in prey-predator relationships play a crucial role in balancing the food-chain of any ecosystem; therefore it is essential to characterize the gut microbiota of spiders collected from natural environments. In the present work, the largest effort so far has been made to characterize the gut microbiota of 35 spider species belonging to four different families using 16S amplicon targeting sequencing. Further, we compared the gut microbiota composition including endosymbiont abundance in spider species collected from different geographical locations. The results obtained revealed the presence of genera like Acinetobacter (

SUBMITTER: Tyagi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8294503 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature