| Metagenomics Reveals Diet-Specific Specialization of Bacterial Communities in Fungus Gardens of Grass- and Dicot-Cutter Ants | |
Khadempour, Lily2; Fan, Huan3 ; Keefover-Ring, Ken; Carlos-Shanley, Camila; Nagamoto, Nilson S.; Dam, Miranda A.; Pupo, Monica T.; Currie, Cameron R.
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| 2020 | |
| Source Publication | FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
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| ISSN | 1664-302X |
| Volume | 11Pages:- |
| Abstract | Leaf-cutter ants in the genusAttaare dominant herbivores in the Neotropics. While most species ofAttacut dicots to incorporate into their fungus gardens, some species specialize on grasses. Here we examine the bacterial community associated with the fungus gardens of grass- and dicot-cutter ants to examine how changes in substrate input affect the bacterial community. We sequenced the metagenomes of 12Attafungus gardens, across four species of ants, with a total of 5.316 Gbp of sequence data. We show significant differences in the fungus garden bacterial community composition between dicot- and grass-cutter ants, with grass-cutter ants having lower diversity. Reflecting this difference in community composition, the bacterial functional profiles between the fungus gardens are significantly different. Specifically, grass-cutter ant fungus garden metagenomes are particularly enriched for genes responsible for amino acid, siderophore, and terpenoid biosynthesis while dicot-cutter ant fungus gardens metagenomes are enriched in genes involved in membrane transport. Differences between community composition and functional capacity of the bacteria in the two types of fungus gardens reflect differences in the substrates that the ants incorporated. These results show that different substrate inputs matter for fungus garden bacteria and shed light on the potential role of bacteria in mediating the ants' transition to the use of a novel substrate. |
| Keyword | LEAF-CUTTING ANTS GUT MICROBIOTA CELLULOSE DEGRADATION PLANT HOST HERBIVORY GENES CONVERGENCE RESISTANCE TRANSPORT |
| Subject Area | Microbiology |
| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2020.570770 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | WOS:000575864100001 |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.xtbg.ac.cn/handle/353005/11805 |
| Collection | 2012年后新成立研究组 |
| Affiliation | 1.[Khadempour, Lily; Fan, Huan; Carlos-Shanley, Camila; Currie, Cameron R.] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Bacteriol, Madison, WI 53706 USA 2.Khadempour, Lily; Carlos-Shanley, Camila; Currie, Cameron R.] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Res Ctr, Madison, WI 53706 USA 3.Rutgers State Univ, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Newark, NJ USA 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Integrat Conservat, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Kunming, Yunnan, Peoples R China 5.Univ Wisconsin, Dept Bot, Madison, WI USA 6.Univ Wisconsin, Dept Geog, Madison, WI 53706 USA 7.Texas State Univ, Dept Biol, San Marcos, TX USA 8.Nagamoto, Nilson S.] Sao Paulo State Univ, Dept Plant Protect, Botucatu, SP, Brazil 9.Dam, Miranda A.] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Nutr Sci, 1415 Linden Dr, Madison, WI 53706 USA 10.Pupo, Monica T.] Univ Sao Paulo, Sch Pharmaceut Sci Ribeirao Preto, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Khadempour, Lily,Fan, Huan,Keefover-Ring, Ken,et al. Metagenomics Reveals Diet-Specific Specialization of Bacterial Communities in Fungus Gardens of Grass- and Dicot-Cutter Ants[J]. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY,2020,11:-. |
| APA | Khadempour, Lily.,Fan, Huan.,Keefover-Ring, Ken.,Carlos-Shanley, Camila.,Nagamoto, Nilson S..,...&Currie, Cameron R..(2020).Metagenomics Reveals Diet-Specific Specialization of Bacterial Communities in Fungus Gardens of Grass- and Dicot-Cutter Ants.FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY,11,-. |
| MLA | Khadempour, Lily,et al."Metagenomics Reveals Diet-Specific Specialization of Bacterial Communities in Fungus Gardens of Grass- and Dicot-Cutter Ants".FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 11(2020):-. |
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