Distribution Patterns of Wolbachia Endosymbionts in the Closely Related Flower Bugs of the Genus Orius: Implications for Coevolution and Horizontal Transfer

Watanabe, Megumi; Tagami, Yohsuke; Miura, Kazuki; Kageyama, Daisuke; Stouthamer, Richard

doi:10.1007/s00248-012-0042-x

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“…However, the ST and the wsp gene did not vary among different colonies, suggesting that the Wolbachia infection may have occurred a long time ago in the common ancestor of the populations. According to Watanabe et al [52], there are three possible explanations for the presence of similar strains of Wolbachia in related species: vertical transmission by a common ancestor [53], horizontal transmission [54], and introgressive hybridization between the hosts [55,56].…”

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Intracellular Symbiotic Bacteria of Camponotus textor, Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

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This study focuses on the weaver ant, Camponotus textor, Forel which occurs in some areas of the Brazilian Cerrado and Atlantic Forest, and its symbionts: Blochmannia, an obligate symbiont of Camponotus, and Wolbachia, known for causing reproductive alterations in their hosts. The main goal of this study was to investigate the presence, frequency of occurrence, and diversity of Wolbachia and Blochmannia strains in C. textor colonies. We found high infection rates (100%) and the occurrence of at least two distinct strains of Blochmannia (H_1 or H_7) in the same species. The observed haplotype variation within a single species may result from the high mutation rate of the symbiont. Similarly, the Wolbachia was found in all colonies with different rates of infections and a new strain (supergroup A) was deposited in the MLST database. The diversity found in the present study shows that there is still much to explore to understand about these symbiotic interactions.

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Section: Wolbachiamentioning

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Intracellular Symbiotic Bacteria of Camponotus textor, Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

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“…The rate of vertical Wolbachia transmission is an important factor in the maintenance of endosymbionts in the host population (Kawasaki et al, 2014). In addition, incongruence between the phylogeny of Wolbachia and its host shows that these bacteria can switch species boundaries and move horizontally between species Watanabe et al, 2012). The close ecological relationship between different species, such as shared habitats or shared parasitoids, can facilitate the horizontal transmission of Wolbachia (Heath et al, 1999;Stahlhut et al, 2010;Schuler et al, 2013;2016;Ahmed et al, 2015).…”

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Wolbachiaendosymbionts in haplodiploid and diploid scolytine beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Kawasaki

Schuler

Stauffer

et al. 2016

Environ Microbiol Rep

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Haplodiploidy is a sex determination system in which fertilized diploid eggs develop into females and unfertilized haploid eggs develop into males. The evolutionary explanations for this phenomenon include the possibility that haplodiploidy can be reinforced by infection with endosymbiotic bacteria, such as Wolbachia. The subfamily Scolytinae contains species with haplodiploid and diploid sex determination systems. Thus, we studied the association with Wolbachia in 12 diploid and 11 haplodiploid scolytine beetles by analyzing wsp and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of five loci in this endosymbiont. Wolbachia genotypes were compared with mitochondrial (COI) and nuclear (EF) genotypes in the scolytines. Eight of the 23 scolytine species were infected with Wolbachia, with haplodiploids at significantly higher rates than diploid species. Cloning and sequencing detected multiple infections with up to six Wolbachia strains in individual species. Phylogenetic analyses of wsp and five MLST genes revealed different Wolbachia strains in scolytines. Comparisons between the beetle and Wolbachia phylogenies revealed that closely related beetles were infected with genetically different Wolbachia strains. These results suggest the horizontal transmission of multiple Wolbachia strains between scolytines. We discuss these results in terms of the evolution of different sex determination systems in scolytine beetles.

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“…Wolbachia pipientis is considered the most widespread vertically transmitted symbiont in animals as it is found associated with the major arthropod groups and some nematodes (Bandi et al ., ; Jeyaprakash and Hoy, ; Werren et al ., ). Even if the vertical route is preponderant and enhanced by the capacity of these symbionts to modify the reproduction of their hosts, horizontal transfers were frequently inferred by phylogenetic discordance between host and symbiont at both the intraspecific (Watanabe et al ., ) and interspecific levels (Werren et al ., ; Vavre et al ., ; Huigens et al ., ). Moreover, such horizontal transfers of Wolbachia are thought to be increased when donor and recipient hosts are ecologically linked (Rigaud and Juchault, ; Heath et al ., ; Cordaux et al ., ; Huigens et al ., ; Raychoudhury et al ., ).…”

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Horizontal transfers of feminizing versus non‐feminizing Wolbachia strains: from harmless passengers to pathogens

Clec’h

Raimond

Guillot

et al. 2013

Environmental Microbiology

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The endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis infects various hosts in which it navigates vertically from mothers to offspring. However, horizontal transfers of Wolbachia can occur between hosts. The virulence of the horizontally acquired Wolbachia can change in the new host as it has been illustrated by the case of the feminizing strain wVulC from the woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare that turns to a pathogen when introduced into Porcellio dilatatus dilatatus. In the present study, we aim to show whether symbiotic traits, such as (i) host sex manipulation and (ii) colonization patterns, which differ between eight isopod Wolbachia strains, are connected to their virulence towards the recipient host P. d. dilatatus. Among the transferred Wolbachia, some feminizing strains gradually differing in feminizing intensity in their native hosts induced different levels of pathogenicity to P. d. dilatatus. Not a single feminizing strain passed vertically with high titres to the next generation. The non-feminizing Wolbachia strains, even if they reached high densities in the host, did not impact host life-history traits and some vertically passed with high titres to the offspring. These results suggest that a potential link between the manners Wolbachia manipulates its native host reproduction, its virulence and its ability to vertically infect the offspring.

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Distribution Patterns of Wolbachia Endosymbionts in the Closely Related Flower Bugs of the Genus Orius: Implications for Coevolution and Horizontal Transfer

Cited by 18 publications

References 51 publications

Intracellular Symbiotic Bacteria of Camponotus textor, Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Intracellular Symbiotic Bacteria of Camponotus textor, Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Wolbachiaendosymbionts in haplodiploid and diploid scolytine beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Horizontal transfers of feminizing versus non‐feminizing Wolbachia strains: from harmless passengers to pathogens

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