【目的】了解人工饲养的兰州熊蜂(Bombus lantschouensis)肠道内共生菌群的组成,探明主要肠道共生菌群在熊蜂生长发育过程中的变化规律,为进一步开展熊蜂共生菌功能的研究奠定基础。【方法】以兰州熊蜂肠道总DNA为模板,使用细菌通用的774F和1391R引物进行PCR扩增,构建细菌16S rDNA文库,挑取单克隆菌落测序,测得序列去除chimera后,以序列相似性97%为标准,划分分类操作单元(operational taxonomic units,OTU),采用BLASTn进行序列同源性分析,确定细菌种类,分析熊蜂肠道菌群的组成。根据克隆文库测得的Gilliamella apicola和Snodgrassella alvi细菌16S rDNA序列设计特异性引物。用G.apicola和S.alvi的特异性引物进行PCR扩增,构建重组子质粒,构建好的质粒经浓度测定后,10倍梯度稀释成5个浓度梯度,进行荧光定量PCR检测,绘制标准曲线。以兰州熊蜂的卵、幼虫、蛹以及0、5、10、15、20日龄的工蜂肠道DNA为模板,采用熊蜂β-actin为内参基因,对样品中的共生菌G.apicola和S.alvi进行荧光定量PCR分析,并比较不同日龄、不同虫态每微升肠道基因组DNA样品中检测到的细菌16S rDNA基因的拷贝数,分析共生菌数量在熊蜂生长发育过程中的变化。不同日龄、不同虫态之间相对表达量的显著性差异用软件SPSS19.0的单因素ANOVA方差分析进行统计。【结果】从文库中随机挑选213个单克隆进行测序,经过Chimeras分析后,共得到202个有效序列,这些序列共划分为16个OTU。测得的序列与登录的相应细菌16S rDNA序列的相似性在93%—99%。在克隆文库测得的细菌16S rDNA序列中,G.apicola占45%、S.alvi占30%、Bifidobacterium占10%、Fructobacillus fructose占5%、Lactobacillus占2%、Flavobacterium aciduliphilum占2%,其他细菌占6%。其中G.apicola和S.alvi为兰州熊蜂肠道内的主要共生菌,qPCR结果表明两种共生菌在不同日龄、不同虫态的熊蜂肠道内都能检测到,两种细菌的数量在熊蜂发育过程中的变化趋势相似,即先增加后减少,最后达到稳定状态。G
Objective The objectives of this study are to examine microbial communities from the digestive tract of Bombus lantschouensis reared in the laboratory, and to analyze the specific bacteria spatio-temporally in different developmental stages of B. lantschouensis, which is the important foundation and basis for further studying the function of symbiotic bacteria in bumblebee.[Method]The fragment of the bacterial 16S rDNA gene was PCR-amplified with the universal eubacterial primers 774F and 1391R and a 16S rDNA clone library of gut bacteria was constructed. Each single clone was picked and sequenced. The sequences were checked for chimeras, sequences of chimeric origin were removed from further analysis. Sequences obtained were analyzed by BLASTn and matched with valid reference sequences in the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) to determine the bacterial species types. The 16S rDNA gene primers of the specific bacteria Gilliamella apicola and Snodgrassella alvi were d