Bee pollen is a highly nutritive natural foodstuff. Because of its use as a comestible, the association of bacteria with bee pollen is commercially and biologically important. We report here the ...bacterial diversity of seven bee pollen samples (five from Europe, one from Chile, and one from Mexico) based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon metagenome sequencing.
Bee pollen is a favorable microhabitat for many microorganisms and its dissemination via commercialization must be of important consideration. Here the data presented describe the characterization of ...bacteria and fungi community structure in seven commercial bee pollen samples from Europe, Mexico, and Chile, obtained from a commercial supplier, which were determined by amplicon-rRNA and ITS analysis. The results show that within the domain Bacteria, the most abundant phyla in all samples were Proteobacteria (24%-91%) and Firmicute (2%-74%), for fungi taxonomy classification was Ascomycota with a relative abundance of 30%-99%, followed by Basidiomycota with a relative abundance of 1%-39%. These results extend our knowledge of the microbial diversity associated with commercial bee pollen used for mass rearing of Bombus impatiens and may be useful in developing procedures for microbial control during its importation.
Little is known about extremophilic microorganisms from glaciers found in subtropical regions, and to our knowledge, no reports have identified glacial bacteria in this ecosystem in Mexico. Herein, ...we report a 16S rRNA gene amplicon data set demonstrating bacterial diversity of three samples from the Iztaccihuatl volcanic complex (Mexico) with a total of 115,701 to 138,805 high-quality reads. The bacterial population was classified at the phylum level in all samples.
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