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American Foulbrood is a worldwide distributed, fatal disease of the brood of the Western honey bee ( Apis mellifera ). The causative agent of this fatal brood disease is the Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium  Paenibacillus larvae , which can be classified into four different genotypes (ERIC I-IV), with ERIC I and II being the ones isolated from contemporary AFB outbreaks.  P. larvae  is a peritrichously flagellated bacterium and, hence, we hypothesized that  P. larvae  is capable of coordinated and cooperative multicellular behaviors like swarming motility and biofilm formation. In order to analyze these behaviors of  P. larvae , we firstly established appropriate functional assays. Using these assays we demonstrated that  P. larvae  ERIC II, but not  P. larvae  ERIC I, was capable of swarming. Swarming motility was hampered in a  P. larvae  ERIC II-mutant lacking production of paenilarvin, an iturin-like lipopeptide exclusively expressed by this genotype. Both genotypes were able to form free floating biofilm aggregates loosely attached to the walls of the culture wells. Visualizing the biofilms by Congo red and thioflavin S staining suggested structural differences between the biofilms formed. Biofilm formation was shown to be independent from paenilarvin production because the paenilarvin deficient mutant was comparably able to form a biofilm.

Swarming motility and biofilm formation of Paenibacillus larvae, the etiological agent of American Foulbrood of honey bees (Apis mellifera)