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Ubiquity of polystyrene digestion and biodegradation within yellow mealworms, larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
- Source :
- Shan, M H, Yang, S, Wu, W-M, Fan, H-Q, Brandon, A M, Receveur, J, Li, Y, Fan, R, Wang, Z-Y, Gao, S-H, McClellan, R, Daliang, N, Phillips, D, Wang, H, Peng, B-Y, Li, P, Cai, S-Y, Ding, L-Y, Cai, W-W, Yang, J, Zheng, M, Ren, J, Zhang, Y-L, Gao, J, Xing, D, Ren, N-Q, Waymouth, R, Zhou, J, Tao, H-C, Picard, C, Benbow, M & Criddle, C 2018, ' Ubiquity of polystyrene digestion and biodegradation within yellow mealworms, larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) ', Chemosphere, pp. 262-272 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.08.078
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Academics researchers and “citizen scientists” from 22 countries confirmed that yellow mealworms, the larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus, can survive by eating polystyrene (PS) foam. More detailed assessments of this capability for mealworms were carried out by12 sources: five from the USA, six from China, and one from Northern Ireland. All of these mealworms digested PS foam. PS mass decreased and depolymerization was observed, with appearance of lower molecular weight residuals and functional groups indicative of oxidative transformations in extracts from the frass (insect excrement). An addition of gentamycin (30 mg g−1), a bactericidal antibiotic, inhibited depolymerization, implicating the gut microbiome in the biodegradation process. Microbial community analyses demonstrated significant taxonomic shifts for mealworms fed diets of PS plus bran and PS alone. The results indicate that mealworms from diverse locations eat and metabolize PS and support the hypothesis that this capacity is independent of the geographic origin of the mealworms, and is likely ubiquitous to members of this species.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
China
Environmental Engineering
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Insect
010501 environmental sciences
Biology
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
Animals
Environmental Chemistry
Food science
Feces
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Larva
Bacteria
Bran
Frass
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Medicine
General Chemistry
Biodegradation
Pollution
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Gastrointestinal Microbiome
Coleoptera
Biodegradation, Environmental
030104 developmental biology
Microbial population biology
Polystyrenes
Gentamicins
Digestion
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Shan, M H, Yang, S, Wu, W-M, Fan, H-Q, Brandon, A M, Receveur, J, Li, Y, Fan, R, Wang, Z-Y, Gao, S-H, McClellan, R, Daliang, N, Phillips, D, Wang, H, Peng, B-Y, Li, P, Cai, S-Y, Ding, L-Y, Cai, W-W, Yang, J, Zheng, M, Ren, J, Zhang, Y-L, Gao, J, Xing, D, Ren, N-Q, Waymouth, R, Zhou, J, Tao, H-C, Picard, C, Benbow, M & Criddle, C 2018, ' Ubiquity of polystyrene digestion and biodegradation within yellow mealworms, larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) ', Chemosphere, pp. 262-272 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.08.078
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0e15753ac4e7b058bf099059a6b2b69f