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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015

Adaptation to enemy shifts: rapid resistance evolution to local Vibrio spp. in invasive Pacific oysters.

Carolin C Wendling, K Mathias Wegner

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The genetic legacy of a global marine invader.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. Cooperation and cheating orchestrate Vibrio assemblages and polymicrobial synergy in oysters infected with OsHV-1 virus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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2 authors.

Carolin C WendlingCoastal Ecology, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Hafenstraße 43, List 25992, Germany cwendling@geomar.de.
K Mathias WegnerCoastal Ecology, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Hafenstraße 43, List 25992, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One hypothesis for the success of invasive species is reduced pathogen burden, resulting from a release from infections or high immunological fitness of invaders. Despite strong selection exerted on the host, the evolutionary response of invaders to newly acquired pathogens has rarely been considered. The two independent and genetically distinct invasions of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas into the North Sea represent an ideal model system to study fast evolutionary responses of invasive populations. By exposing both invasion sources to ubiquitous and phylogenetically diverse pathogens (Vibrio spp.), we demonstrate that within a few generations hosts adapted to newly encountered pathogen communities. However, local adaptation only became apparent in selective environments, i.e. at elevated temperatures reflecting patterns of disease outbreaks in natural populations. Resistance against sympatric and allopatric Vibrio spp. strains was dominantly inherited in crosses between both invasion sources, resulting in an overall higher resistance of admixed individuals than pure lines. Therefore, we suggest that a simple genetic resistance mechanism of the host is matched to a common virulence mechanism shared by local Vibrio strains. This combination might have facilitated a fast evolutionary response that can explain another dimension of why invasive species can be so successful in newly invaded ranges.

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Adaptation, BiologicalBiological EvolutionHost-Pathogen InteractionsIntroduced SpeciesAnimalsBacterial ProteinsCrassostreaGenetic VariationMolecular Sequence DataNorth SeaPhylogenySequence Analysis, DNAVibrioBacterial Proteinsdominant inheritancehost-parasite coevolutionlocal adaptationmulti-host parasitesmulti-locus sequence typing

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PMID25716784
PMCPMC4375854

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