The Presence of Bifidobacteria in Social Insects, Fish and Reptiles

0345762 - ÚŽFG 2011 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Kopečný, Jan - Mrázek, Jakub - Killer, Jiří
The Presence of Bifidobacteria in Social Insects, Fish and Reptiles.
Folia Microbiologica. Roč. 55, č. 4 (2010), s. 336-339. ISSN 0015-5632. E-ISSN 1874-9356
R&D Projects: GA ČR GD525/08/H060
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50450515
Keywords : bifidobacteria * digestive tract * social insects
Subject RIV: GM - Food Processing
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The occurrence and species distribution of bifidobacteria in the digestive tract of important representatives of social insects such as ants, bees, wasps and bumblebees as well as the incidence of bifidobacteria in fecal samples of several species of vertebrates represented mainly by reptiles was assigned by culture-independent method based on DGGE and real time PCR. Bifidobacteria were present in the gut of most social insects – honey bees, wasps, cockroaches and bumblebees, except for ants. In honey bees, where the counts of bifidobacteria ranged from 2 to 8 % of the total bacteria, the most common species seemed to be Bifidobacterium indicum. Proportion of bifidobacteria was found in broad range from 0.1 to 35–37 % in wasps and cockroaches; the variance of bifidobacteria in bumblebees was lower, ranging from 1 to 7 % of total bacterial count.
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