ArticleMicrobial ecology2022
Ecological Contacts and Host Specificity Promote Replacement of Nutritional Endosymbionts in Ticks.
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- Beyond Dominant Symbionts: Low-Abundance Taxa Govern Microbial Network Topology in Sympatric Ticks.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- High throughput sequencing in the diagnosis and surveillance of tick-borne diseases: A narrative review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Tick-vectored mobilization of antibiotic resistance genes: transboundary dissemination across wildlife-livestock-vector-environment interfaces.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Article
- The microbiome of the sucking louse Linognathus stenopsis (Phthiraptera, Anoplura, Linognathiidae).Journal of medical entomology · 2025Article
- Evolutionary Convergence of Nutritional Symbionts in Ticks.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Detection of Francisellaceae and the differentiation of main European F. tularensis ssp. holarctica strains (Clades) by new designed qPCR assays.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Host-bacteria interactions: ecological and evolutionary insights from ancient, professional endosymbionts.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2024Review
- Genomic characterization of Francisella tularensis and other diverse Francisella species from complex samples.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Symbiosis with vitamin-provisioning microbes is essential for the nutrition of animals with some specialized feeding habits. While coevolution favors the interdependence between symbiotic partners, their associations are not necessarily stable: Recently acquired symbionts can replace ancestral symbionts. In this study, we demonstrate successful replacement by Francisella-like endosymbionts (-LE), a group of B-vitamin-provisioning endosymbionts, across tick communities driven by horizontal transfers. Using a broad collection of Francisella-LE-infected tick species, we determined the diversity of Francisella-LE haplotypes through a multi-locus strain typing approach and further characterized their phylogenetic relationships and their association with biological traits of their tick hosts. The patterns observed showed that Francisella-LE commonly transfer through similar ecological networks and geographic distributions shared among different tick species and, in certain cases, through preferential shuffling across congeneric tick species. Altogether, these findings reveal the importance of geographic, ecological, and phylogenetic proximity in shaping the replacement pattern in which new nutritional symbioses are initiated.
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