Distinct communities and differing dispersal routes in bacteria and fungi of honey bees, honey, and flowers

Tiusanen Mikko, Becker-Scarpitta Antoine, Wirta Helena. 2024. Distinct communities and differing dispersal routes in bacteria and fungi of honey bees, honey, and flowers. Microbial Ecology, 87:100, 10 p.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-024-02413-z

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Résumé : Microbiota, the communities of microbes on and in organisms or organic matter, are essential for the functioning of ecosystems. How microbes are shared and transmitted delineates the formation of a microbiota. As pollinators forage, they offer a route to transfer microbes among the flowering plants, themselves, and their nests. To assess how the two components of the microbiota, bacteria and fungi, in pollination communities are shared and transferred, we focused on the honey bee Apis mellifera and collected honey bee, honey (representing the hive microbiota), and flower samples three times during the summer in Finland. We identified the bacteria and fungi by DNA metabarcoding. To determine the impact of honey bees' flower choices on the honey bee and hive microbiota, we identified also plant DNA in honey. The bacterial communities of honey bees, honey, and flowers all differ greatly from each other, while the fungal communities of honey bees and honey are very similar, yet different from flowers. The time of the summer and the sampling area influence all these microbiota. For flowers, the plant identity impacts both bacterial and fungal communities' composition the most. For the dispersal pathways of bacteria to honey bees, they are acquired directly from the honey and indirectly from flowers through the honey, while fungi are directly transmitted to honey bees from flowers. Overall, the distinctiveness of the microbiota of honey bees, honey, and the surrounding flowers suggests the sharing of microbes among them occurs but plays a minor role for the established microbiota.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : flore microbienne, Apis mellifera, conduite de la ruche, ruche, Champignon, Apis mellifera mellifera, Bacteria, floraison, micro-organisme

Mots-clés libres : Pollination, Apis mellifera, Microbiota, Metabarcoding, Community ecology

Agences de financement européennes : European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development

Agences de financement hors UE : Koneen Säätiö

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