Cultivable, Host-Specific Bacteroidetes Symbionts Exhibit Diverse Polysaccharolytic Strategies.

ABSTRACT: Beneficial gut microbes can facilitate insect growth on diverse diets. The omnivorous American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Insecta: Blattodea), thrives on a diet rich in plant polysaccharides and harbors a species-rich gut microbiota responsive to host diet. Bacteroidetes are among the most abundant taxa in P. americana and other cockroaches, based on cultivation-independent gut community profiling, and these potentially polysaccharolytic bacteria may contribute to host diet processing. Eleven Bacteroidetes isolates were cultivated from P. americana digestive tracts, and phylogenomic analyses suggest that they were new Bacteroides, Dysgonomonas, Paludibacter, and Parabacteroides species distinct from those previously isol

SUBMITTER: Vera-Ponce de Leon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7117922 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature