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Physico-Chemical Aspects and Complete Bacterial Community Composition Analysis of Wasp Nests

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  • Chaolin Fang

    (Environmental Engineering Program, Guangdong Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou 515063, China)

  • Varenyam Achal

    (Environmental Engineering Program, Guangdong Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou 515063, China
    Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel)

Abstract

Wasps are a group of social insects that build a house, known as a nest, from locally available building materials cemented by their saliva and secretions. Similar to termite nests, there could be many beneficiary bacteria present in their house that can play an important part in maintaining sustainability in soil ecosystems. Thus, the present study was initiated with a physico-chemical characterization of wasp nests collected from residential and forest zones, followed by unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis to identify major associated minerals. Further, MiSeq Illumina sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene (V3–V4 regions) was carried out to analyze complete bacterial community composition of wasp nests. The resulting data showed a dominance of Actinobacteria followed by Proteobacteria in both nests. Kaistobacter and Phycicoccus were the dominant genera in each type of wasp nest. It was concluded that wasp nests are an abundant source to isolate bacteria that can potentially be helpful in soil biogeochemical cycling and fertility, antibiotics production and bioremediation.

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  • Chaolin Fang & Varenyam Achal, 2020. "Physico-Chemical Aspects and Complete Bacterial Community Composition Analysis of Wasp Nests," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-10, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:7:p:2652-:d:337747
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    1. Ben Jesuorsemwen Enagbonma & Olubukola Oluranti Babalola, 2019. "Environmental Sustainability: A Review of Termite Mound Soil Material and Its Bacteria," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(14), pages 1-10, July.
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