ArticleInsect science2020
Patterns of host cell inheritance in the bacterial symbiosis of whiteflies.
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- Subcellular Niche Segregation of Co-Obligate Symbionts in Whiteflies.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Evolution and ontogeny of bacteriocytes in insects.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Whitefly endosymbionts: IPM opportunity or tilting at windmills?Journal of pest science · 2022Review
- Intracellular symbionts drive sex ratio in the whitefly by facilitating fertilization and provisioning of B vitamins.The ISME journal · 2020Article
- Portiera Gets Wild: Genome Instability Provides Insights into the Evolution of Both Whiteflies and Their Endosymbionts.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Endosymbiosis morphological reorganization during metamorphosis diverges in weevils.Communicative & integrative biology · 2020Article
- Housing microbial symbionts: evolutionary origins and diversification of symbiotic organs in animals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
Whiteflies possess bacterial symbionts Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidium that are housed in specialized cells called bacteriocytes and are faithfully transmitted via the ovary to insect offspring. In one whitefly species studied previously, Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, transmission is mediated by somatic inheritance of bacteriocytes, with a single bacteriocyte transferred to each oocyte and persisting through embryogenesis to the next generation. Here, we investigate the mode of bacteriocyte transmission in two whitefly species, B. tabaci MED, the sister species of MEAM1, and the phylogenetically distant species Trialeurodes vaporariorum. Microsatellite analysis supported by microscopical studies demonstrates that B. tabaci MED bacteriocytes are genetically different from other somatic cells and persist through embryogenesis, as for MEAM1, but T. vaporariorum bacteriocytes are genetically identical to other somatic cells of the insect, likely mediated by the degradation of maternal bacteriocytes in the embryo. These two alternative modes of transmission provide a first demonstration among insect symbioses that the cellular processes underlying vertical transmission of bacterial symbionts can diversify among related host species associated with a single lineage of symbiotic bacteria.
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