ArticleBMC microbiology2013
Mealybugs nested endosymbiosis: going into the 'matryoshka' system in Planococcus citri in depth.
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- What can a weevil teach a fly, and reciprocally? Interaction of host immune systems with endosymbionts in Glossina and Sitophilus.BMC microbiology · 2018Review
- Tremblaya phenacola PPER: an evolutionary beta-gammaproteobacterium collage.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- Et tu, Brute? Not Even Intracellular Mutualistic Symbionts Escape Horizontal Gene Transfer.Genes · 2017Review
- Predictive Genomic Analyses Inform the Basis for Vitamin Metabolism and Provisioning in Bacteria-Arthropod Endosymbioses.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017Article
- Symbionts in waiting: the dynamics of incipient endosymbiont complementation and replacement in minimal bacterial communities of psyllids.Microbiome · 2017Article
- Convergent patterns in the evolution of mealybug symbioses involving different intrabacterial symbionts.The ISME journal · 2017Article
- Winding paths to simplicity: genome evolution in facultative insect symbionts.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2016Review
- Heritability of symbiont density reveals distinct regulatory mechanisms in a tripartite symbiosis.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Genome reduction and potential metabolic complementation of the dual endosymbionts in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci.BMC genomics · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn all branches of life there are plenty of symbiotic associations. Insects are particularly well suited to establishing intracellular symbiosis with bacteria, providing them with metabolic capabilities they lack. Essential primary endosymbionts can coexist with facultative secondary symbionts which can, eventually, establish metabolic complementation with the primary endosymbiont, becoming a co-primary. Usually, both endosymbionts maintain their cellular identity. An exception is the endosymbiosis found in mealybugs of the subfamily Pseudoccinae, such as Planococcus citri, with Moranella endobia located inside Tremblaya princeps.
resultsWe report the genome sequencing of M. endobia str. PCVAL and the comparative genomic analyses of the genomes of strains PCVAL and PCIT of both consortium partners. A comprehensive analysis of their functional capabilities and interactions reveals their functional coupling, with many cases of metabolic and informational complementation. Using comparative genomics, we confirm that both genomes have undergone a reductive evolution, although with some unusual genomic features as a consequence of coevolving in an exceptional compartmentalized organization.
conclusionsM. endobia seems to be responsible for the biosynthesis of most cellular components and energy provision, and controls most informational processes for the consortium, while T. princeps appears to be a mere factory for amino acid synthesis, and translating proteins, using the precursors provided by M. endobia. In this scenario, we propose that both entities should be considered part of a composite organism whose compartmentalized scheme (somehow) resembles a eukaryotic cell.
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