A Deep Metagenomic Snapshot as a Proof‐of‐Concept for Resource Generation: Simultaneous Assembly of Host, Food, and Microbiome Genomes From Stingless Bee Larval Food
Carlos Ueira‐Vieira, Ana Carolina Costa Santos, Thayane Nogueira Araújo, Solange Cristina Augusto, Natanael Borges de Avila, Ana Maria Bonetti, Anderson Rodrigues dos Santos · 2025
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Carlos Ueira-Vieira and six co-authors offered a 2025 proof of concept for pulling many genomes out of one complex sample. Molecular ecologists struggle to map the web of who eats whom and who lives with whom. Their sample was the food that stingless bee larvae eat, a mix of host, food plants, and microbes. Deep DNA sequencing read the whole mix at once.
From that single run, the team assembled a near-complete bacterial genome, a draft bee organelle genome, and a broken lettuce chloroplast genome. The quality ladder matched how much of each DNA the sample held. Traces of hundreds of bacterial genera, plant families, and insects also appeared. One dominant bacterium may be a new species. The authors say one dataset can serve many studies at once.
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| CREATOR | Carlos Ueira‐Vieira, Ana Carolina Costa Santos, Thayane Nogueira Araújo, Solange Cristina Augusto, Natanael Borges de Avila, Ana Maria Bonetti, Anderson Rodrigues dos Santos |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |