Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster.
Wolbachia are maternally inherited symbiotic bacteria, commonly found in arthropods, which are able to manipulate the reproduction of their host in order to maximise their transmission. The evolutionary history of endosymbionts like Wolbachia can be revealed by integrating information on infection s...
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| author | Mark F Richardson Lucy A Weinert John J Welch Raquel S Linheiro Michael M Magwire Francis M Jiggins Casey M Bergman |
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| description | Wolbachia are maternally inherited symbiotic bacteria, commonly found in arthropods, which are able to manipulate the reproduction of their host in order to maximise their transmission. The evolutionary history of endosymbionts like Wolbachia can be revealed by integrating information on infection status in natural populations with patterns of sequence variation in Wolbachia and host mitochondrial genomes. Here we use whole-genome resequencing data from 290 lines of Drosophila melanogaster from North America, Europe, and Africa to predict Wolbachia infection status, estimate relative cytoplasmic genome copy number, and reconstruct Wolbachia and mitochondrial genome sequences. Overall, 63% of Drosophila strains were predicted to be infected with Wolbachia by our in silico analysis pipeline, which shows 99% concordance with infection status determined by diagnostic PCR. Complete Wolbachia and mitochondrial genomes show congruent phylogenies, consistent with strict vertical transmission through the maternal cytoplasm and imperfect transmission of Wolbachia. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis reveals that the most recent common ancestor of all Wolbachia and mitochondrial genomes in D. melanogaster dates to around 8,000 years ago. We find evidence for a recent global replacement of ancestral Wolbachia and mtDNA lineages, but our data suggest that the derived wMel lineage arose several thousand years ago, not in the 20th century as previously proposed. Our data also provide evidence that this global replacement event is incomplete and is likely to be one of several similar incomplete replacement events that have occurred since the out-of-Africa migration that allowed D. melanogaster to colonize worldwide habitats. This study provides a complete genomic analysis of the evolutionary mode and temporal dynamics of the D. melanogaster-Wolbachia symbiosis, as well as important resources for further analyses of the impact of Wolbachia on host biology. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bd8fdebdf71744f9913c9fb7442289d32025-08-20T03:01:15ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Genetics1553-73901553-74042012-01-01812e100312910.1371/journal.pgen.1003129Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster.Mark F RichardsonLucy A WeinertJohn J WelchRaquel S LinheiroMichael M MagwireFrancis M JigginsCasey M BergmanWolbachia are maternally inherited symbiotic bacteria, commonly found in arthropods, which are able to manipulate the reproduction of their host in order to maximise their transmission. The evolutionary history of endosymbionts like Wolbachia can be revealed by integrating information on infection status in natural populations with patterns of sequence variation in Wolbachia and host mitochondrial genomes. Here we use whole-genome resequencing data from 290 lines of Drosophila melanogaster from North America, Europe, and Africa to predict Wolbachia infection status, estimate relative cytoplasmic genome copy number, and reconstruct Wolbachia and mitochondrial genome sequences. Overall, 63% of Drosophila strains were predicted to be infected with Wolbachia by our in silico analysis pipeline, which shows 99% concordance with infection status determined by diagnostic PCR. Complete Wolbachia and mitochondrial genomes show congruent phylogenies, consistent with strict vertical transmission through the maternal cytoplasm and imperfect transmission of Wolbachia. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis reveals that the most recent common ancestor of all Wolbachia and mitochondrial genomes in D. melanogaster dates to around 8,000 years ago. We find evidence for a recent global replacement of ancestral Wolbachia and mtDNA lineages, but our data suggest that the derived wMel lineage arose several thousand years ago, not in the 20th century as previously proposed. Our data also provide evidence that this global replacement event is incomplete and is likely to be one of several similar incomplete replacement events that have occurred since the out-of-Africa migration that allowed D. melanogaster to colonize worldwide habitats. This study provides a complete genomic analysis of the evolutionary mode and temporal dynamics of the D. melanogaster-Wolbachia symbiosis, as well as important resources for further analyses of the impact of Wolbachia on host biology.https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003129&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Mark F Richardson Lucy A Weinert John J Welch Raquel S Linheiro Michael M Magwire Francis M Jiggins Casey M Bergman Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genetics |
| title | Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster. |
| title_full | Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster. |
| title_fullStr | Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster. |
| title_short | Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster. |
| title_sort | population genomics of the wolbachia endosymbiont in drosophila melanogaster |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003129&type=printable |
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