Caracterização do microbioma intestinal de abelhas Apis mellifera L. nos biomas caatinga e mata atlântica do estado da Paraíba

Abstract

in general, several intrinsic alter the composition of the intestinal microbiota and extrinsic factors of the host such as diet, physiological state and genetic history. The present study aimed to characterize the differences in the intestinal microbiota of Apis mellifera bees from two biomes (Atlantic Forest and Caatinga) through the use of genomic tools. For the characterization of the microbiota, sequencing of the V3-V4 region of the microbial 16S rRNA gene was performed and data processing was sequential. In the results, it is observed that for seven genera, there is an abundance in both regions, but for the genus Apibacter, there is the presence of this in lower abundance in the samples of the Caatinga hives. Studies have dismounted that bees exposed to different landscape types present significant differences in their intestinal microbial communities, although the variance shown by the landscape type is relatively low.