Features and Colonization Strategies of Enterococcus faecalis in the Gut of Bombyx mori.

ABSTRACT: The complex gut microbiome is a malleable microbial community that can undergo remodeling in response to many factors, including the gut environment and microbial properties. Enterococcus has emerged as one of the predominant gut commensal bacterial and plays a fundamental role in the host physiology and health of the major economic agricultural insect, Bombyx mori. Although extensive research on gut structure and microbiome diversity has been carried out, how these microbial consortia are established in multifarious niches within the gut has not been well characterized to date. Here, an Enterococcus species that was stably associated with its host, the model organism B. mori, was identified in the larval gut. GFP-tagged E. faecalis LX10 was constructed a

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9263704 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature