ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
A gene associated with social immunity in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides.
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- Microbiome-assisted carrion preservation aids larval development in a burying beetle.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Pheromones Regulating Reproduction in Subsocial Beetles: Insights with References to Eusocial Insects.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Review
- Strategies for managing rival bacterial communities: Lessons from burying beetles.The Journal of animal ecology · 2018Article
- Offspring dependence on parental care and the role of parental transfer of oral fluids in burying beetles.Frontiers in zoology · 2018Article
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- No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Variation in sex pheromone emission does not reflect immunocompetence but affects attractiveness of male burying beetles-a combination of laboratory and field experiments.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2017Article
- Relating quantitative variation within a behavior to variation in transcription.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2017Article
- The digestive and defensive basis of carcass utilization by the burying beetle and its microbiota.Nature communications · 2017Article
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- Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle's carrion nest.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Sex, offspring and carcass determine antimicrobial peptide expression in the burying beetle.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Some group-living species exhibit social immunity, where the immune response of one individual can protect others in the group from infection. In burying beetles, this is part of parental care. Larvae feed on vertebrate carcasses which their parents smear with exudates that inhibit microbial growth. We have sequenced the transcriptome of the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides and identified six genes that encode lysozymes-a type of antimicrobial enzyme that has previously been implicated in social immunity in burying beetles. When females start breeding and producing antimicrobial anal exudates, we found that the expression of one of these genes was increased by approximately 1000 times to become one of the most abundant transcripts in the transcriptome. Females varied considerably in the antimicrobial properties of their anal exudates, and this was strongly correlated with the expression of this lysozyme. We conclude that we have likely identified a gene encoding a key effector molecule in social immunity and that it was recruited during evolution from a function in personal immunity.
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