{"response":{"status":"ok","message_type":"publication"},"id":1649,"citation":"Morera‐Margarit et al., 2019, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata","doi":"10.1111/eea.12757","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/publications/1649.json","link_ext":"https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12757","title":"The bacterial community associated with adult vine weevil (\u003ci\u003eOtiorhynchus sulcatus\u003c/i\u003e) in \u003cscp\u003eUK\u003c/scp\u003e populations growing on strawberry is dominated by \u003ci\u003eCandidatus\u003c/i\u003e Nardonella","journal":"Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata","journal_loc":"167 (3)","journal_date":"2019-03-01","pub_type":"journal-article","abstract":"\u003cjats:title\u003eAbstract\u003c/jats:title\u003e\u003cjats:p\u003e\u003cjats:italic\u003eOtiorhynchus sulcatus\u003c/jats:italic\u003e (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), commonly known as black vine weevil or simply vine weevil, is an important pest of soft fruit and ornamental crops. This species is endemic to temperate areas of Europe but has spread to many other areas over the last century, including North America and Australasia. The ability of vine weevils to adapt to such different environments is difficult to reconcile with the parthenogenetic reproduction strategy, which is likely to underpin a low genetic diversity. It is therefore tempting to hypothesize that weevil adaptation to different environments is mediated, at least partly, by the microbial communities inhabiting these insects. As a first step towards testing this hypothesis we characterized the composition of the bacterial microbiota in weevils from populations feeding on strawberry plants across four geographically separate locations in the \u003cjats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\"\u003eUK\u003c/jats:styled-content\u003e. We performed 16S \u003cjats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\"\u003erRNA\u003c/jats:styled-content\u003e gene Illumina amplicon sequencing, generating 2 882 853 high‐quality reads. Ecological indices, namely Chao1 and Shannon, revealed that the populations used for this study harboured a low diversity and an uneven bacterial microbiota. Furthermore, β‐diversity analysis failed to identify a clear association between microbiota composition and location. Notably, a single operational taxonomic unit phylogenetically related to \u003cjats:italic\u003eCandidatus\u003c/jats:italic\u003e Nardonella accounted for 81% of the total sequencing reads for all tested insects. Our results indicate that vine weevil bacterial microbiota resembles that of other insects as it has low diversity and it is dominated by few taxa. A prediction of this observation is that location per se may not be a determinant of the microbiota inhabiting weevil populations. Rather, other or additional selective pressures, such as the plant species used as a food source, ultimately shape the weevil bacterial microbiota. Our results will serve as a reference framework to investigate other or additional hypotheses aimed at elucidating vine weevil adaptation to its environment.\u003c/jats:p\u003e","long_citation_html":"Morera‐Margarit et al. (2019). The bacterial community associated with adult vine weevil (\u003ci\u003eOtiorhynchus sulcatus\u003c/i\u003e) in \u0026lt;scp\u0026gt;UK\u0026lt;/scp\u0026gt; populations growing on strawberry is dominated by \u003ci\u003eCandidatus\u003c/i\u003e Nardonella. \n\u003ci\u003eEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata\u003c/i\u003e. \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12757\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDOI:10.1111/eea.12757\u003c/a\u003e\n","created_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.879Z","updated_at":"2025-11-06T13:43:12.585Z","authors":[{"id":6320,"given":"Pilar","family":"Morera‐Margarit","created_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.919Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.919Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/6320.json"},{"id":6321,"given":"Davide","family":"Bulgarelli","created_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.937Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.937Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/6321.json"},{"id":6322,"given":"Tom W.","family":"Pope","created_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.947Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.947Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/6322.json"},{"id":6323,"given":"Robert I.","family":"Graham","created_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.968Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.968Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/6323.json"},{"id":6324,"given":"Carolyn","family":"Mitchell","created_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.995Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:23.995Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/6324.json"},{"id":6325,"given":"Alison J.","family":"Karley","created_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:24.008Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T19:30:24.008Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/6325.json"}],"names":[{"id":287,"name":"Candidatus Nardonella","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/names/287.json","uri":"https://seqco.de/i:287"}],"subjects":[{"id":2,"name":"Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/subjects/2.json"},{"id":18,"name":"Insect Science","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/subjects/18.json"}]}