Microbiota and Its Importance in Honey Bees

Borum, Ayşe Ebru

doi:10.51458/bstd.2021.14

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“…Honeybee microbiota is a complex ecosystem of microorganisms responsible for metabolic functions such as energy and vitamin management, satiety regulation, lipid homeostasis, and the adjustment of glucose levels [16]. It positively influences the immune system by regulating the induction of protective responses against pathogens and stimulates immune responses.…”

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“…It positively influences the immune system by regulating the induction of protective responses against pathogens and stimulates immune responses. The microbiota composition is unique to individuals within the same species [16]. Intestinal bacteria belonging to the honeybee microbiota are transmitted between individuals via trophallactic and oral-fecal transmission.…”

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Antagonistic Activity of Potentially Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria against Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Pathogens

et al. 2022

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Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are an essential part of the microbiota of the digestive tract of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.). Antagonistic activity of 103 LAB strains (isolates from different environments) against 21 honeybee pathogens/opportunistic pathogens (with agar slab method) was screened. The growth of Paenibacillus genus was inhibited to the most extent. The highest antagonistic activity was demonstrated by Lacticaseibacillus casei 12AN, while the lowest by Apilactobacillus kunkeei DSM 12361, a species naturally inhabiting the honeybee gut. LAB isolated from the honeybee environment demonstrated stronger antagonism against pathogens than collection strains. The antagonistic activity of cell-free supernatants (CFSs) from 24 LAB strains against 7 honeybee pathogens was additionally assessed at physiological pH with the microtitration method. The same was determined for selected CFSs at neutralized pH. CFSs with physiological pH showed significantly stronger antibacterial activity than CFSs with neutralized pH. The results confirmed that the mechanism of antimicrobial activity of LAB is acidification of the environment. The obtained results may, in the future, contribute to a better understanding of the antagonistic properties of LAB and the construction of a probiotic preparation to increase the viability of honeybee colonies.

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Antagonistic Activity of Potentially Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria against Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Pathogens

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“…Many of the bee's functions depend on their gut microbiota. It is demonstrated that bee gut microbiota is involved in insect performance [8], resilience to stressors, and quantity and quality of bee-by products [2,8,14,21]. Acknowledging the above, bee gut microbiota hold the potential of a suitable implementation as a panel of biomarkers for effectively monitoring environmental pollution, besides sensing antimicrobial resistance diffusion and pathogenic traits transmission.…”

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The Bee Gut Microbiota: Bridging Infective Agents Potential in the One Health Context

Tilocca,

Greco,

Piras

et al. 2024

IJMS

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The bee gut microbiota plays an important role in the services the bees pay to the environment, humans and animals. Alongside, gut-associated microorganisms are vehiculated between apparently remote habitats, promoting microbial heterogeneity of the visited microcosms and the transfer of the microbial genetic elements. To date, no metaproteomics studies dealing with the functional bee microbiota are available. Here, we employ a metaproteomics approach to explore a fraction of the bacterial, fungal, and unicellular parasites inhabiting the bee gut. The bacterial community portrays a dynamic composition, accounting for specimens of human and animal concern. Their functional features highlight the vehiculation of virulence and antimicrobial resistance traits. The fungal and unicellular parasite fractions include environment- and animal-related specimens, whose metabolic activities support the spatial spreading of functional features. Host proteome depicts the major bee physiological activities, supporting the metaproteomics strategy for the simultaneous study of multiple microbial specimens and their host-crosstalks. Altogether, the present study provides a better definition of the structure and function of the bee gut microbiota, highlighting its impact in a variety of strategies aimed at improving/overcoming several current hot topic issues such as antimicrobial resistance, environmental pollution and the promotion of environmental health.

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“…A specialised gut microbial community in honey bees plays a critical role in their growth and development and, subsequently, in the production of honey from nectar 20 . Dysbiosis of bee gut microbiome through environmental factors such as stress, diet, and antibiotic exposure increases the risk of pathogenic attack, leading to significant economic loss to apiarists 89 .…”

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Big Data for a Small World: A Review on Databases and Resources for Studying Microbiomes

et al. 2023

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Microorganisms are ubiquitous in nature and form complex community networks to survive in various environments. This community structure depends on numerous factors like nutrient availability, abiotic factors like temperature and pH as well as microbial composition. Categorising accessible biomes according to their habitats would help in understanding the complexity of the environment-specific communities. Owing to the recent improvements in sequencing facilities, researchers have started to explore diverse microbiomes rapidly and attempts have been made to study microbial crosstalk. However, different metagenomics sampling, preprocessing, and annotation methods make it difficult to compare multiple studies and hinder the recycling of data. Huge datasets originating from these experiments demand systematic computational methods to extract biological information beyond microbial compositions. Further exploration of microbial co-occurring patterns across the biomes could help us in designing cross-biome experiments. In this review, we catalogue databases with system-specific microbiomes, discussing publicly available common databases as well as specialised databases for a range of microbiomes. If the new datasets generated in the future could maintain at least biome-specific annotation, then researchers could use those contemporary tools for relevant and bias-free analysis of complex metagenomics data.

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Microbiota and Its Importance in Honey Bees

Cited by 5 publications

References 77 publications

Antagonistic Activity of Potentially Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria against Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Pathogens

Antagonistic Activity of Potentially Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria against Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Pathogens

The Bee Gut Microbiota: Bridging Infective Agents Potential in the One Health Context

Big Data for a Small World: A Review on Databases and Resources for Studying Microbiomes

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