Influential Insider: Wolbachia, an Intracellular Symbiont, Manipulates Bacterial Diversity in Its Insect Host
2021
Ourry, Morgane | Crosland, Agathe | Lopez, Valérie | Derocles, Stephane A. P. | Mougel, Christophe | Cortesero, Anne‐marie | Poinsot, Denis | Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes (IGEPP) ; Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-INSTITUT AGRO Agrocampus Ouest ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | Metaomiques and Ecosystemes Microbiens' Metaprogram of the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE); Region Bretagne (France) Region Bretagne; INRAE division 'Sante des Plantes et Environnement' [SE 0000282 MP-P10026 EB06]
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. Facultative intracellular symbionts like the α-proteobacteria influence their insect host phenotype but little is known about how much they affect their host microbiota. Here, we quantified the impact of infection on the bacterial community of the cabbage root fly by comparing the microbiota of -free and infected adult flies of both sexes. We used high-throughput DNA sequencing (Illumina MiSeq, 16S rRNA, V5-V7 region) and performed a community and a network analysis. In both sexes, infection significantly decreased the diversity of bacterial communities and modified their structure and composition by reducing abundance in some taxa but increasing it in others. Infection by was negatively correlated to 8 bacteria genera ( was the most impacted), and positively correlated to and . We suggest that might antagonize for being entomopathogenic (and potentially intracellular), but would favor and because they might protect the host against chemical plant defenses. Although they might seem prisoners in a cell, endocellular symbionts can impact the whole microbiota of their host, hence its extended phenotype, which provides them with a way to interact with the outside world.
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