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The Effects of Urbanization on Bee Microbiomes
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The Effects of Urbanization on Bee Microbiomes
Yazar:
Torres, Jacob, author.
ISBN:
9780438080959
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1 electronic resource (57 pages)
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Kenneth McCravy; Catherine Miller-Hunt Committee members: Andrea Porras-Alfaro.
Özet:
Pollinating insects are an important component of the world's biodiversity. Pollination is an essential ecological process; it has been estimated that over 90% of flowering plants are animal pollinated. Bees are the most important group of pollinators in most habitats and are the most important pollinators for most of the world's flowering ecosystems. This study sought to determine whether there is a relationship between increasing levels of disturbance (intact ecosystem, urbanization as a disturbance, agriculture as a disturbance) and the impact on the bacterial communities found within the intestinal tract of bees. It is hypothesized that urbanization and habitat type may have a strong impact on bee gut microbiomes. Bees were collected for this study from areas with varying levels of urbanization and land-use statistics for these three sites were obtained from CropScape database. Bees were collected from all three sites on June 8th, July 7th, and August 15th 2017 to encompass an array of seasonal patterns of bee and flower activity. The GPS coordinates for each collection site were recorded to ensure accurate repeated collecting. DNA was extracted and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed. RDP, UNITE, and NCBI databases were used to verify taxonomy of the amplified bacterial. Based on my results it can be concluded that the interaction between site sampled and collection date has a significant effect on the gut bacterial microbiome of bees collected in West-Central Illinois (PerMANOVA: p = 0.043). Two bacterial species were found to be indicator species with a level of significance below 0.001 (ISA: 2 bacterial species p = <0.001).
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School code: 6012
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