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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
卷 314, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120278
关键词
Antibiotics; Gut microbiota; Sensitivity; Metagenomic sequencing; Israeli acute paralysis virus
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31811530276]
- Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program [CAAS-IBFC-2022]
Antibiotics are widely used and present in the environment, causing negative impacts on organisms. This study investigated the increased sensitivity of honey bees to viral infection due to antibiotic exposure. The findings showed that antibiotic treatment altered the gut microbiome in bees and promoted their susceptibility to viral infection.
Antibiotics are omnipresent in the environment due to their widespread use, and they have wide-ranging negative impacts on organisms. Virus resistance differs substantially between domesticated Apis mellifera and wild Apis cerana, although both are commonly raised in China. Here, we investigated whether antibiotics can increase the sensitivity of honey bees to viral infection using the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) and tetra-cycline as representative virus and antibiotic. Although IAPV multiplied to lower levels in A. cerana than A. mellifera, resulting in decreased mortality (P < 0.01), there was no significant difference in immune responses to viral infection between the two species. Adult worker bees (A. cerana and A. mellifera) were treated with or without tetracycline to demonstrate the prominent role of gut microbiota against viral infection, and found Lactobacillus played a vital antiviral role in A. cerana. In A. cerana but not A. mellifera, tetracycline treatment reduced clearly bee survival and increased susceptibility to IAPV infection (P < 0.01). Our findings revealed that long-term antibiotic treatment in A. mellifera had altered the native gut microbiome and promoted the sensitivity to viral infection. We highlight the effects of antibiotics exposure on resistance to microbial and viral infection.
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