Bacterial diversity in worker adults of Apis mellifera capensis and Apis mellifera scutellata (Insecta: Hymenoptera) assessed using 16S rRNA sequences

Isolation of pathogenic bacteria from Oberea linearis (Coleptera: Cerambycidae)

“…(Demir et al 2002), Xanthomonas sp. (Lynch et al 1976) and Serratia marcescens (Bucher 1967;Sezen & Demirbag 1999;Jackson et al 2001;Kuzina et al 2001;Osborn et al 2002;Jeyaprakash et al 2003) have also been isolated and used for biological control purpose from other insects in previous studies. However, this is the first record indicating the isolation of Microbacterium sp., Pseudomonas syringae, Enterobacter cancerogenus and Xanthomonas maltophilia bacteria from any insect.…”

Evolution of host specialization in gut microbes: the bee gut as a model

“…and bumble bees (Bombus spp) possess a distinctive gut microbiota dominated by about 8 bacterial phylotypes. [2][3][4]8 Three groups, S. alvi, G. apicola, and Lactobacillus spp., form the majority of the gut community. 9,10 Phylogenetic analyses indicate that they each comprise monophyletic clades of bee-associated bacteria, which is suggestive of an intimate symbiosis persisting over evolutionary time scales.…”

“…Some species, such as the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), are indispensable for agriculture and have been prominent cultural icons in many human societies for thousands of years. 1 Only recently have the microbiomes of these ubiquitous insects been described, [2][3][4] and the bee gut has since emerged as an attractive model system for investigating gut community dynamics and hostmicrobe interactions. However, because of its novelty, the genomic and experimental data necessary for developing theoretical frameworks for this system have been lacking.…”

Integrating nutrition and immunology: A new frontier

“…Gut microbes also play a role in invertebrate biology (Dillon and Dillon, 2003) and digestive process [Brune, 2011 [Lundgren, 2010, and recently the composition of microbe gut populations has been described in a variety of insect species, including bees (Jeyaprakash et al, 2003;Mohr and Tebbe, 2006), beetles (Egert et al, 2005;Lehman et al, 2009;Nardi et al, 2006;Zhang and Jackson, 2008), flies (Cox and Gilmore, 2007;Ren et al, 2007;Ryu et al, 2008;Shin et al, 2011;Wong et al, 2011), lepidopterans (Pauchet et al, 2010;Xiang et al, 2006) and termites (Hongoh et al, 2003). In Drosophila, the microbiome regulates host metabolic homeostatic and developmental programs by modulating the insulin/insulin-like growth factor (Shin et al, 2011).…”