Divergent diversity and composition of microbial communities between the whole body and dissected gut of oribatid mites revealed by high-throughput sequencing.

Yannan Chen, Yu Chen, Gexia Qiao, Jun Chen

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Yannan Chen *National Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.

Yu Chen *National Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.

Gexia QiaoNational Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China. qiaogx@ioz.ac.cn.

Jun ChenNational Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China. chenj@ioz.ac.cn.

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National Science & Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program of China 2025FY100800, 2024FY100400Self-deployment Project of Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2024IOZ0108

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Abstract

Soil microarthropods are known to harbor diverse microbial communities that play crucial roles in host physiology and ecological functions. Due to the minute size of oribatid mites, microbial studies have traditionally relied on whole body DNA extraction after surface sterilization, potentially confounding gut microbiota with microorganisms from other tissues. This study employed high-throughput Illumina sequencing to comprehensively compare bacterial and fungal communities between the whole body and dissected gut samples of the oribatid mite Eremobelba eharai. Our results revealed significantly higher bacterial α-diversity (Shannon-Wiener and Pielou evenness indices) in gut samples compared to whole body samples, while fungal richness was significantly lower in gut samples. Non-metric multidimensional scaling demonstrated significant divergence in bacterial community composition between sample types (PERMANOVA: R

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BacteriaBiodiversityFungiGastrointestinal MicrobiomeMicrobiotaMitesMycobiomeAnimalsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMicroarthropodsMicrobial communitiesMicrobial functional potentialOribatid mitesTrophic groups

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PMID42437402

DOI10.1007/s10493-026-01158-3

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