The Comparison of Gut Bacteria Communities and the Functions Among the Sympatric Grasshopper Species From the Loess Plateau.

ABSTRACT: Gut bacteria exert effects on the health and fitness of their insect hosts. Grasshoppers are an important part of the grassland ecosystem and provide important ecosystem services. As the most valuable feature in grassland ecosystem, the compositions and potential influences of gut bacterial in herbivorous grasshoppers in the same ecological environment are essential but undetermined. To facilitate such studies, we collected nine species of grasshoppers (n = 110) from a rebuild grassland on the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, China, which is a representative area of ecosystem restoration model. We characterized the composition and function of the gut bacteria. We found that 326 OTUs were exhibited in all grasshoppers in which Enterobacter, Pantoea, Bacillus, a

SUBMITTER: Zhao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9037097 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature