Wolbachia-Host Interactions: Host Mating Patterns Affect Wolbachia Density Dynamics

Zhao, Defang; Zhang, Xiangfei; Chen, Da-Song; Zhang, Yankai; Hong, Xia

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066373

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“…At the beginning of this project, phylogenetic analyses of Wolbachia 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) showed that the Wolbachia from T. urticae belonged to supergroup B (Fig. S1; Zhao et al, ). The number of eggs deposited by the CI cross [female uninfected (U) × male infected (I)] was similar to the number deposited by the Wolbachia ‐uninfected (WU) crosses (female U × male U) (WU vs. CI = 33.2 ± 8.92 vs. 33.4 ± 9.98, mean ± SD, P = 0.999, Fig.…”

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“…Previous studies have shown that Wolbachia 's effects on host fecundity vary distinctly amongst different populations of T. urticae , including deleterious (Vala et al, ; Vala et al, ), neutral (Vala et al, ; Xie et al, ; Zhao et al, ) and beneficial effects (Xie et al, ; Sun et al, ). In our study, Wolbachia ‐induced CI killed the females in the offspring of the CI cross.…”

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Transcriptome of Tetranychus urticae embryos reveals insights into Wolbachia‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

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Insect Molecular Biology

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The endosymbiont Wolbachia is known for manipulating host reproduction in selfish ways. However, the molecular mechanisms have not yet been investigated in embryos. Here, we found that Wolbachia had no effect on the number of deposited eggs in Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) but caused two types of reproductive manipulation: killing uninfected female embryos via cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) and increasing the hatching ratio of infected female embryos. RNA sequencing analyses showed that 145 genes were differentially expressed between Wolbachia‐infected (WI) and Wolbachia‐uninfected (WU) embryos. Wolbachia infection down‐regulated messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of glutathione S‐transferase that could buffer oxidative stress. In addition, 1613 and 294 genes were identified as CI‐specific up‐/down‐regulated genes. Compared to WU and WI embryos, embryos of CI cross strongly expressed genes involved in transcription, translation, tissue morphogenesis, DNA damage and mRNA surveillance. In contrast, most of the genes associated with energy production and metabolism were down‐regulated in the CI embryos compared to the WU and WI embryos, which provides some clues as to the cause of death of CI embryos. These results identify several genes that could be candidates for explaining Wolbachia‐induced CI. Our data form a basis to help elucidate the molecular consequences of CI in embryos.

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Transcriptome of Tetranychus urticae embryos reveals insights into Wolbachia‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

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“…Nine Wolbachia strains were detected from the positive specimens, and several of these strains have previously been studied in detail. For example, there is evidence that Wolbachia induces CI in several spider mites, including T. urticae 323343, T. phaselus 26, T. truncatus 27, T. piercei 8 and A. viennensis 35. Regarding Cardinium , it was found to induce CI in T. piercei 8, T. phaselus 26 and T. truncatus 27.…”

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Screening of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) for reproductive endosymbionts reveals links between co-infection and evolutionary history

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Yang

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Reproductive endosymbionts have been shown to have wide-ranging effects on many aspects of their hosts’ biology. A first step to understanding how these endosymbionts interact with their hosts is to determine their incidences. Here, we screened for four reproductive endosymbionts (Wolbachia, Cardinium, Spiroplasma and Rickettsia) in 28 populations of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) representing 12 species. Each of the four endosymbionts were identified in at least some of the tested specimens, and their infection patterns showed variations at the species-level and population-level, suggesting their distributions can be correlated with both the phylogeny and ecology of the hosts. Co-infections of unrelated bacteria, especially double infections of Wolbachia and Cardinium within the same individuals were common. Spiroplasma and Rickettsia infections were specific to particular host species, respectively. Further, the evolutionary histories of these endosymbionts were inferred by comparing the phylogenies of them and their hosts. These findings can help to clarify the interactions between endosymbionts and arthropods.

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“…Parasitic behavior of intercellular bacteria with invertebrates are very common and play an important role to manipulate host biological interactions such as reproductions, developments, gene expression (Zhao et al, 2013) and immune systems (Ivanov & Littman, 2011). A bulk of researches have been conducted to identified the insectbacteria association particularly Wolbachia exerts negative impacts to reduce host fitness, responsible for degradation and early death (Min & Benzer, 1997), responsible for pathogen dissemination (Cook et al, 2008), reduce host survival rate (McMeniman et al, 2009), manipulate reproductive system (McGraw et al, 2001) and inhibit the pathogenicity of host .With these above reproductive manipulations, the bacterium (Wolbcahia) thrives in its various hosts at the expense of the hosts' reproduction and act like reproductive parasite to reduced host populations successfully.…”

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“…It is beneficial for the host species (Taylor et al, 2013) by increasing the survival rate of host or insect species (Vala et al, 2003;Dobson et al, 2004;Foster et al, 2005;Weeks et al, 2007;Zhao et al, 2013) or enhancing the fecundity rate (Girin & Bouletreau, 1995;Dobson et al, 2002a;Fry et al, 2004;Xie et al, 2011). In Tribolium confusum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) infected male sperm with Wolbachia takes long reproductive time than compared to uninfected ones.…”

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A way of reproductive manipulation and biology of Wolbachia pipientis

Ali¹,

Hou²,

Tang³

et al. 2016

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KEYWORDS Wolbachia Endosymbiotic bacteriaIntegrated pest management (IPM) Coleoptera ABSTRACTThe endo-symbiotic relationship between microorganism and eukaryotes are very common and has been broadly investigated from all insect species. The genus Wolbachia are obligatory intracellular bacteria that induce evolutionary alterations and have been frequently reported in egg cytoplasm's of various invertebrates including insects, spiders, mites, scorpions, crustaceans and nematodes, which exert a profound impact on host biology and behavior through a number of phenotypic alternations. Due to its ubiquitous phenotypic behavior, Wolbachia becomes a novel and promising natural micro-biocontrol agent to induce cytoplasmic incompatibility, killing of male embryos, parthenogenesis, and feminization. Autonomous transgenic capability, survival on several host species and the ability to modify the host reproductive systems makes it the most prominent and focusing scientific genomic research from last few decades. The aim of this review is to summarize the significance and recent discoveries of Wolbachia related to various arthropods which lead positive directions to be exploited in future for integrated pest management (IPM) strategies. Further, this review also discussed the biology, phylogeny, distributions, classifications and types of Wolbachia infections on insect orders and coleopterans in particular.

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Wolbachia-Host Interactions: Host Mating Patterns Affect Wolbachia Density Dynamics

Cited by 39 publications

References 53 publications

Transcriptome of Tetranychus urticae embryos reveals insights into Wolbachia‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

Transcriptome of Tetranychus urticae embryos reveals insights into Wolbachia‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

Screening of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) for reproductive endosymbionts reveals links between co-infection and evolutionary history

A way of reproductive manipulation and biology of Wolbachia pipientis

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