Yeast communities related to honeybees: occurrence and distribution in flowers, gut mycobiota, and bee products.
Bee bread
Bee pollen
Honeybees
Honeybees gut
Propolis
Yeasts detection
Journal
Applied microbiology and biotechnology
ISSN: 1432-0614
Titre abrégé: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 8406612
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
26 Jan 2024
26 Jan 2024
Historique:
received:
10
08
2023
accepted:
13
12
2023
revised:
05
12
2023
medline:
26
1
2024
pubmed:
26
1
2024
entrez:
26
1
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Honeybee (Apis mellifera) is an important agricultural pollinator and a model for sociality. In this study, a deep knowledge on yeast community characterizing the honeybees' environmental was carried out. For this, a total of 93 samples were collected: flowers as food sources, bee gut mycobiota, and bee products (bee pollen, bee bread, propolis), and processed using culture-dependent techniques and a molecular approach for identification. The occurrence of yeast populations was quantitatively similar among flowers, bee gut mycobiota, and bee products. Overall, 27 genera and 51 species were identified. Basidiomycetes genera were predominant in the flowers while the yeast genera detected in all environments were Aureobasidium, Filobasidium, Meyerozyma, and Metschnikowia. Fermenting species belonging to the genera Debaryomyces, Saccharomyces, Starmerella, Pichia, and Lachancea occurred mainly in the gut, while most of the identified species of bee products were not found in the gut mycobiota. Five yeast species, Meyerozyma guilliermondii, Debaryomyces hansenii, Hanseniaspora uvarum, Hanseniaspora guilliermondii, and Starmerella roseus, were present in both summer and winter, thus indicating them as stable components of bee mycobiota. These findings can help understand the yeast community as a component of the bee gut microbiota and its relationship with related environments, since mycobiota characterization was still less unexplored. In addition, the gut microbiota, affecting the nutrition, endocrine signaling, immune function, and pathogen resistance of honeybees, represents a useful tool for its health evaluation and could be a possible source of functional yeasts. KEY POINTS: • The stable yeast populations are represented by M. guilliermondii, D. hansenii, H. uvarum, H. guilliermondii, and S. roseus. • A. pullulans was the most abondance yeast detective in the flowers and honeybee guts. • Aureobasidium, Meyerozyma, Pichia, and Hanseniaspora are the main genera resident in gut tract.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38276993
doi: 10.1007/s00253-023-12942-1
pii: 10.1007/s00253-023-12942-1
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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