Bacterial Diversity Profiling of the New Zealand Parasitic Blowfly Lucilia sericata Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing

Palevich, Nikola; Maclean, Paul; Carvalho, Luis; Jáuregui, Ruy

doi:10.1128/mra.00257-21

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“…The commercial relevance of many of New Zealand's introduced insect species has also seen them attract interest from microbiome researchers. These include the honey bee (Apis mellifera), which is widely used for pollination of commercial crops (Taylor et al 2019), and the blowfly (Lucilia sericata) which can be of veterinary concern due to its role in myiasis (flystrike) of New Zealand livestock (Palevich et al 2021). The common wasp (Vespula vulgaris) is an aggressive and highly effective competitor with native species for honeydew (Gruber et al 2019), while certain mealybug species are vectors of viruses connected to grapevine leafroll disease, with their endosymbiotic bacteria potentially facilitating this transmission (Gatehouse et al 2012).…”

Section: Terrestrial Invertebrates Insectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microbiomes of native Aotearoa New Zealand animals

Ayriss¹,

Taylor²

2023

NZJE

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Microbiome research is revealing the profound effects that microbial inhabitants can have on their animal hosts. Recent and rapid advances in sequencing technologies have allowed biologists to characterise the microbial constituents of a variety of host organisms, giving greater insights into these intimate relationships than ever before. For many animal species, microbiomes serve as an interface between host and environment, with associated microorganisms playing functional roles in nutrition, immunity, reproduction, and even behaviour. In this Review, we offer a brief overview of microbiome research methodology before summarising previous and ongoing research into the microbiomes of native New Zealand animals. Our unique endemic fauna, evolved during tens of millions of years of geographic isolation, offers exciting opportunities for microbiome research across a range of diverse taxa and we highlight key findings of relevant studies. Moreover, while recognising the crucial role that 16S rRNA gene sequencing plays in microbiome research, we conclude the Review with a look beyond 16S and consider what other technologies can bring to this field. We encourage further investigation into the functional roles of microbial species across a broader range of host-animal taxa across New Zealand, both in wild and captive states.

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Section: Terrestrial Invertebrates Insectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microbiomes of native Aotearoa New Zealand animals

Ayriss¹,

Taylor²

2023

NZJE

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“…To investigate the impact of vaccine treatment on the parasite microbiota, adult male H. contortus populations from sheep were treated with our recombinant vaccine (n = 10) with worms from non-treated control animals (n = 9). High molecular weight genomic DNA was extracted from samples for the metagenomic 16S amplicon sequencing of the V3-V4 hypervariable region as previously described [56,57]. The prepared DNA samples had at least 50 ng of purified gDNA for each sample at a concentration of at least 10 ng/µL, with the majority of DNA being greater than 10 Kb in size and with minimal lower molecular weight smearing or RNA contamination.…”

Section: S Rrna Gene Library Preparation Miseq Sequencing and Microbi...mentioning

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Multi-Omic Profiling, Structural Characterization, and Potent Inhibitor Screening of Evasion-Related Proteins of a Parasitic Nematode, Haemonchus contortus, Surviving Vaccine Treatment

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The emergence of drug-resistant parasitic nematodes in both humans and livestock calls for development of alternative and cost-effective control strategies. Barbervax® is the only registered vaccine for the economically important ruminant strongylid Haemonchus contortus. In this study, we compared the microbiome, genome-wide diversity, and transcriptome of H. contortus adult male populations that survived vaccination with an experimental vaccine after inoculation in sheep. Our genome-wide SNP analysis revealed 16 putative candidate vaccine evasion genes. However, we did not identify any evidence for changes in microbial community profiling based on the 16S rRNA gene sequencing results of the vaccine-surviving parasite populations. A total of fifty-eight genes were identified as significantly differentially expressed, with six genes being long non-coding (lnc) RNAs and none being putative candidate SNP-associated genes. The genes that highly upregulated in surviving parasites from vaccinated animals were associated with GO terms belonging to predominantly molecular functions and a few biological processes that may have facilitated evasion or potentially lessened the effect of the vaccine. These included five targets: astacin (ASTL), carbonate dehydratase (CA2), phospholipase A2 (PLA2), glutamine synthetase (GLUL), and fatty acid-binding protein (FABP3). Our tertiary structure predictions and modelling analyses were used to perform in silico searches of all published and commercially available inhibitor molecules or substrate analogs with potential broad-spectrum efficacy against nematodes of human and veterinary importance.

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“…To investigate the impact of vaccine treatment on the parasite microbiota, adult male H. contortus populations from sheep treated with our recombinant vaccine (n=10) with worms from non-treated control animals (n=9). High molecular weight genomic DNA was extracted from samples for metagenomic 16S Amplicon Sequencing of the V3-V4 hypervariable region as previously described [55,56]. The prepared DNA samples had at least 50 ng of purified gDNA for each sample at a concentration of at least 10 ng/µl with the majority of DNA greater than 10 Kb in size and with minimal lower molecular weight smearing or RNA contamination.…”

Section: S Rrna Gene Library Preparation Miseq Sequencing and Microbi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-omic Profiling, Structural Characterization and Potent Inhibitor Screening of Evasion Related Proteins of a Parasitic Nematode, Haemonchus contortus, Surviving Vaccine Treatment

Palevich¹,

Maclean²,

Carbone³

et al. 2022

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The emergence of drug-resistant parasitic nematodes of both humans and livestock calls for development of alternative and cost-effective control strategies. For the economically important ruminant strongylid Haemonchus contortus, Barbervax® remains the only registered vaccine available. Here we compared the microbiome, genome-wide diversity and transcriptome of H. contortus adult male populations that survived vaccination with an experimental vaccine after inoculation in sheep. Our genome-wide SNP analysis revealed 16 putative candidate vaccine evasion genes. However, we did not identify any evidence for changes in microbial community profiling based of 16S rRNA gene sequencing results of vaccine surviving parasite populations. A total of 58 genes were identified as significantly differentially expressed with six being long non-coding (lnc) RNAs and no putative candidate SNP associated genes. The genes highly upregulated in surviving parasites from vaccinated animals were associated with GO terms belonging to predominantly molecular function and a few biological processes that may have facilitated evasion or potentially lessened the effect of the vaccine. These included five targets: astacin (ASTL), carbonate dehydratase (CA2), phospholipase A2 (PLA2), glutamine synthetase (GLUL) and fatty acid-binding protein (FABP3). We searched all five DEG targets against the proteomes of selected Nematoda (Clades III, V, IV, C, I) and Platyhelminthes (Clades Monogenea, Trematoda, Cestoda, Rhabditophora) to determine homologs within the H. contortus NZ_HCO_NP v1.0 genome and identified single-copy orthologous groups (OGs) in selected proteomes. All but one (FABP3) demonstrated high levels of duplication and wide-spread occurrence in closely related Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus, with complete absence of all five gene targets among other Clade III (Toxocara canis) and V (Ascaris suum, Ascaris lumbricoides and Parascaris univalens) nematodes, further supporting their vital biological functions in nematodes. Phylogenetic analyses inferred the presence of only ASTL and CA2 in almost all Nematoda, platyhelminthes and metazoans examined, with loss of GLULs observed among all outgroup vertebrate species and the presence of FABP3 in only three other species (Schmidtea mediterranea, Fasciola gigantica and F. hepatica). Our tertiary structure predictions and modelling analyses were used to perform in silico searches of all published and commercially available inhibitor molecules or substrate analogues with potential broad-spectrum efficacy against nematodes of human and veterinary importance.

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Bacterial Diversity Profiling of the New Zealand Parasitic Blowfly Lucilia sericata Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Microbiomes of native Aotearoa New Zealand animals

Microbiomes of native Aotearoa New Zealand animals

Multi-Omic Profiling, Structural Characterization, and Potent Inhibitor Screening of Evasion-Related Proteins of a Parasitic Nematode, Haemonchus contortus, Surviving Vaccine Treatment

Multi-omic Profiling, Structural Characterization and Potent Inhibitor Screening of Evasion Related Proteins of a Parasitic Nematode, Haemonchus contortus, Surviving Vaccine Treatment

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