FEMS Microbiology Ecology (2019) 95 (11 - fiz153)

Pavel Klimov, Vit Molva, Marta Nesvorna, Stano Pekar, Elena Shcherbachenko, Tomas Erban and Jan Hubert (2019)
Dynamics of the microbial community during growth of the house dust mite Dermatophagoides farinae in culture
FEMS Microbiology Ecology 95 (11 - fiz153)
Abstract: The variation in house dust mite microbial communities is important because various microorganisms modulate the production of allergens by their mite hosts and/or contaminate immunotherapeutic extracts. Temporal changes in mite microbiomes and the mite culture environment occurring at different stages of mite culture development are particularly understudied in this system. Here, we analyzed the dynamics of microbial communities during the culture growth of Dermatophagoides farinae. Changes in microbiomes were related to three key variables: the mite population density, microbial microcosm respiration and concentration of guanine (the mite nitrogenous waste metabolite). Mite populations exhibited the following phases: exponential growth, plateau and exponential decline. The intracellular bacterium Cardinium and the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae prevailed in the internal mite microbiomes, and the bacterium Lactobacillus fermentum was prevalent in the mite diet. The reduction in the mite population size during the late phases of culture development was related to the changes in their microbial profiles: the intracellular bacterium Cardinium was replaced by Staphylococcus, Oceanobacillus and Virgibacillus, and S. cerevisiae was replaced by the antagonistic fungi Aspergillus penicillioides and Candida. Increases in the guanine content were positively correlated with increases in the Staphylococcus and A. penicillioides profiles in the culture environment. Our results show that the mite microbiome exhibits strong, dynamic alterations in its profiles across different mite culture growth stages.
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Database assignments for author(s): Pavel B. Klimov, Stano Pekar, Tomas Erban, Jan Hubert

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution
environment - cropping system/rotation

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Dermatophagoides farinae