The diversity of reproductive parasites among arthropods: Wolbachiado not walk alone
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Duron, Olivier
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Bouchon, Didier
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Boutin, Sébastien
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Bellamy, Lawrence
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Zhou, Liqin
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Engelstädter, Jan
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Hurst, Gregory D.
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2019-04-11T14:33:52Z
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2017-06-08T19:00:54Z
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2019-04-11T14:33:52Z
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2008-06-24
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1741-7007
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10.1186/1741-7007-6-27
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/9681
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10.3929/ethz-b-000009681
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Background
Inherited bacteria have come to be recognised as important components of arthropod biology. In addition to mutualistic symbioses, a range of other inherited bacteria are known to act either as reproductive parasites or as secondary symbionts. Whilst the incidence of the α-proteobacterium Wolbachia is relatively well established, the current knowledge of other inherited bacteria is much weaker. Here, we tested 136 arthropod species for a range of inherited bacteria known to demonstrate reproductive parasitism, sampling each species more intensively than in past surveys.
Results
The inclusion of inherited bacteria other than Wolbachia increased the number of infections recorded in our sample from 33 to 57, and the proportion of species infected from 22.8% to 32.4%. Thus, whilst Wolbachia remained the dominant inherited bacterium, it alone was responsible for around half of all inherited infections of the bacteria sampled, with members of the Cardinium, Arsenophonus and Spiroplasma ixodetis clades each occurring in 4% to 7% of all species. The observation that infection was sometimes rare within host populations, and that there was variation in presence of symbionts between populations indicates that our survey will itself underscore incidence.
Conclusion
This extensive survey demonstrates that at least a third of arthropod species are infected by a diverse assemblage of maternally inherited bacteria that are likely to strongly influence their hosts' biology, and indicates an urgent need to establish the nature of the interaction between non-Wolbachia bacteria and their hosts.
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en
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BioMed Central
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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The diversity of reproductive parasites among arthropods: Wolbachiado not walk alone
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Journal Article
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Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
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BMC Biology
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6
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BMC Biol
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27
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12 p.
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publishedVersion
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London
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published
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ETH Zürich::00002 - ETH Zürich::00012 - Lehre und Forschung::00007 - Departemente::02350 - Dep. Umweltsystemwissenschaften / Dep. of Environmental Systems Science::02720 - Institut für Integrative Biologie / Institute of Integrative Biology::03584 - Bonhoeffer, Sebastian / Bonhoeffer, Sebastian
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ETH Zürich::00002 - ETH Zürich::00012 - Lehre und Forschung::00007 - Departemente::02350 - Dep. Umweltsystemwissenschaften / Dep. of Environmental Systems Science::02720 - Institut für Integrative Biologie / Institute of Integrative Biology::03584 - Bonhoeffer, Sebastian / Bonhoeffer, Sebastian
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2017-06-08T19:01:10Z
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ECIT
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imp59364be04605476217
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pub:20626
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yes
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Open access
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