2018
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-018-0624-9
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The gut microbiome is associated with behavioural task in honey bees

Abstract: The gut microbiome is recognised as playing an integral role in the health and ecology of a wide variety of animal taxa. However, the relationship between social behavioural traits and the microbial community has received little attention. Honey bees are highly social and the workers perform different behavioural tasks in the colony that cause them to be exposed to different local environments. Here we examined whether the gut microbial community composition of worker honey bees is associated with the behaviou… Show more

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“…Another family with relatively high abundance was Lactobacilliaceae, which has been reported extensively in honeybees. The microbiome composition in honey bees appear to correlate with behavioral tasks such as foraging, caring for young, or food processing-with Lactobacillus mellis present at a significantly higher level in bees performing nursing or processing food than bees performing foraging tasks [52,53]. The bee-associated Lactobacillus species (Family Lactobacillaceae) are known to be phylogenetically and metabolically distinct from human-associated Lactobacillus species [54].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another family with relatively high abundance was Lactobacilliaceae, which has been reported extensively in honeybees. The microbiome composition in honey bees appear to correlate with behavioral tasks such as foraging, caring for young, or food processing-with Lactobacillus mellis present at a significantly higher level in bees performing nursing or processing food than bees performing foraging tasks [52,53]. The bee-associated Lactobacillus species (Family Lactobacillaceae) are known to be phylogenetically and metabolically distinct from human-associated Lactobacillus species [54].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…subtle (Guo et al, 2015;Anderson et al, 2018;Jones et al, 2018). Similarly, the fungus-farming subfamily of the Termitidae exhibits differences in gut bacterial composition related to foodprocessing by temporal subcastes (Hinze et al, 2002;Hongoh et al, 2006;Li et al, 2015Li et al, , 2016.…”
Section: Current Knowledge On Caste-distinct Gut Microbiomesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also within the worker caste, differences in gut bacterial communities have been found. Age‐matched honey bees that perform tasks inside the hive, such as brood care, had more diverse gut communities than foragers (Jones et al, ). Within worker caste, differences in gut communities seem to be especially pronounced between newly eclosed and older social insect workers: At eclosion from the pupal stage, honey bee workers are generally devoid of gut bacteria (Martinson, Moy, & Moran, ), but through frequent social interactions with older bees and exposure to hive materials young workers acquire different species of symbionts within several days after emergence (Powell et al, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%