ArticleMicrobes and environments2015
Population structure of Endomicrobia in single host cells of termite gut flagellates (Trichonympha spp.).
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- Genome Analysis of Endomicrobium proavitum Suggests Loss and Gain of Relevant Functions during the Evolution of Intracellular Symbionts.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- Discovery and Complete Genome Sequence of a Bacteriophage from an Obligate Intracellular Symbiont of a Cellulolytic Protist in the Termite Gut.Microbes and environments · 2017Article
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- Comparison of Intracellular "Ca. Endomicrobium Trichonymphae" Genomovars Illuminates the Requirement and Decay of Defense Systems against Foreign DNA.Genome biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Restriction-Modification Systems as Mobile Genetic Elements in the Evolution of an Intracellular Symbiont.Molecular biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Symbiosis Studies in Microbial Ecology.Microbes and environments · 2016Article
- Lignocellulose degradation mechanisms across the Tree of Life.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2015Review
- Complete Genome Sequence of Endomicrobium proavitum, a Free-Living Relative of the Intracellular Symbionts of Termite Gut Flagellates (Phylum Elusimicrobia).Genome announcements · 2015Article
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Abstract
The gut microbiota of many phylogenetically lower termites is dominated by the cellulolytic flagellates of the genus Trichonympha, which are consistently associated with bacterial symbionts. In the case of Endomicrobia, an unusual lineage of endosymbionts of the Elusimicrobia phylum that is also present in other gut flagellates, previous studies have documented strict host specificity, leading to the cospeciation of "Candidatus Endomicrobium trichonymphae" with their respective flagellate hosts. However, it currently remains unclear whether one Trichonympha species is capable of harboring more than one Endomicrobia phylotype. In the present study, we selected single Trichonympha cells from the guts of Zootermopsis nevadensis and Reticulitermes santonensis and characterized their Endomicrobia populations based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region sequences. We found that each host cell harbored a homogeneous population of symbionts that were specific to their respective host species, but phylogenetically distinct between each host lineage, corroborating cospeciation being caused by vertical inheritance. The experimental design of the present study also allowed for the identification of an unexpectedly large amount of tag-switching between samples, which indicated that any high-resolution analysis of microbial community structures using the pyrosequencing technique has to be interpreted with great caution.
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