PMID- 35722352 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220716 IS - 1664-302X (Print) IS - 1664-302X (Electronic) IS - 1664-302X (Linking) VI - 13 DP - 2022 TI - Patterns of Microbiome Composition Vary Across Spatial Scales in a Specialist Insect. PG - 898744 LID - 10.3389/fmicb.2022.898744 [doi] LID - 898744 AB - Microbial communities associated with animals vary based on both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Of many possible determinants affecting microbiome composition, host phylogeny, host diet, and local environment are the most important. How these factors interact across spatial scales is not well understood. Here, we seek to identify the main influences on microbiome composition in a specialist insect, the western corn rootworm (WCR; Diabrotica virgifera virgifera), by analyzing the bacterial communities of adults collected from their obligate host plant, corn (Zea mays), across several geographic locations and comparing the patterns in communities to its congeneric species, the northern corn rootworm (NCR; Diabrotica barberi). We found that bacterial communities of WCR and NCR shared a portion of their bacterial communities even when collected from disparate locations. However, within each species, the location of collection significantly influenced the composition of their microbiome. Correlations of geographic distance between sites with WCR bacterial community composition revealed different patterns at different spatial scales. Community similarity decreased with increased geographic distance at smaller spatial scales (~25 km between the nearest sites). At broad spatial scales (>200 km), community composition was not correlated with distances between sites, but instead reflected the historical invasion path of WCR across the United States. These results suggest bacterial communities are structured directly by dispersal dynamics at small, regional spatial scales, while landscape-level genetic or environmental differences may drive community composition across broad spatial scales in this specialist insect. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Paddock, Finke, Kim, Sappington and Hibbard. FAU - Paddock, Kyle J AU - Paddock KJ AD - Division of Plant Science and Technology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States. FAU - Finke, Deborah L AU - Finke DL AD - Division of Plant Science and Technology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States. FAU - Kim, Kyung Seok AU - Kim KS AD - Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States. FAU - Sappington, Thomas W AU - Sappington TW AD - USDA-ARS, Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States. FAU - Hibbard, Bruce E AU - Hibbard BE AD - USDA-ARS, Plant Genetics Research Unit, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220602 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Microbiol JT - Frontiers in microbiology JID - 101548977 PMC - PMC9201478 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Diabrotica virgifera virgifera OT - beetle OT - biogeography OT - insect-microbe interactions OT - metacommunity OT - microbial ecology COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/06/21 06:00 MHDA- 2022/06/21 06:01 PMCR- 2022/06/02 CRDT- 2022/06/20 04:07 PHST- 2022/03/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/05/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/06/20 04:07 [entrez] PHST- 2022/06/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/06/21 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/06/02 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fmicb.2022.898744 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Microbiol. 2022 Jun 2;13:898744. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.898744. eCollection 2022.