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MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
Volume 85, Issue 4, Pages 1552-1563Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-022-02008-6
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Microbial ecology; Dysbiosis; Symbiosis; Host adaptation
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The gut bacterial community of fall armyworm larvae, regardless of geographical distribution or host strain, is mainly composed of Enterococcus and Pseudomonas.
The fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is an important polyphagous agricultural pest in the Western Hemisphere and currently invasive to countries of the Eastern Hemisphere. This species has two host-adapted strains named rice and corn strains. Our goal was to identify the occurrence of core members in the gut bacterial community of fall armyworm larvae from distinct geographical distribution and/or host strain. We used next-generation sequencing to identify the microbial communities of S. frugiperda from corn fields in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru, and rice fields from Panama. The larval gut microbiota of S. frugiperda larvae did not differ between the host strains nor was it affected by the geographical distribution of the populations investigated. Our findings provide additional support for Enterococcus and Pseudomonas as core members of the bacterial community associated with the larval gut of S. frugiperda, regardless of the site of collection or strain. Further investigations are required for a deeper understanding of the nature of this relationship.
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