Gutenberg Open Science: Transmission of bacterial symbionts with and without genome erosion between a beetle host and the plant environment

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dc.contributor.author	Wierz, Jürgen C.	-
dc.contributor.author	Gaube, Paul	-
dc.contributor.author	Klebsch, Dagmar	-
dc.contributor.author	Kaltenpoth, Martin	-
dc.contributor.author	Flórez, Laura V.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-24T10:41:39Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-03-24T10:41:39Z	-
dc.date.issued	2021	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/6543	-
dc.description.abstract	Many phytophagous insects harbor symbiotic bacteria that can be transmitted vertically from parents to offspring, or acquired horizontally from unrelated hosts or the environment. In the latter case, plants are a potential route for symbiont transfer and can thus foster a tripartite interaction between microbe, insect, and plant. Here, we focus on two bacterial symbionts of the darkling beetle Lagria villosa that belong to the genus Burkholderia; the culturable strain B. gladioli Lv-StA and the reduced-genome strain Burkholderia Lv-StB. The strains can be transmitted vertically and confer protection to the beetle’s eggs, but Lv-StA can also proliferate in plants, and both symbiont strains have presumably evolved from plant pathogens. Notably, little is known about the role of the environment for the transmission dynamics and the maintenance of the symbionts. Through manipulative assays, we demonstrate the transfer of the symbionts from the beetle to wheat, rice and soybean plants, as well as leaf litter. In addition, we confirm that aposymbiotic larvae can pick up Lv-StA from dry leaves and the symbiont can successfully establish in the beetle’s symbiotic organs. Also, we show that the presence of plants and soil in the environment improves symbiont maintenance. These results indicate that the symbionts of L. villosa beetles are still capable of interacting with plants despite signatures of genome erosion and suggest that a mixed-mode of bacterial transmission is likely key for the persistence of the symbiosis.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin Mainz	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	570 Biowissenschaften	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	570 Life sciences	en_GB
dc.title	Transmission of bacterial symbionts with and without genome erosion between a beetle host and the plant environment	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-6533	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 10 Biologie	de
jgu.organisation.number	7970	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Frontiers in microbiology	de
jgu.journal.volume	12	de
jgu.pages.alternative	715601	de
jgu.publisher.year	2021	-
jgu.publisher.name	Frontiers Media	de
jgu.publisher.place	Lausanne	de
jgu.publisher.uri	https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.715601	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1664-302X	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	570	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.3389/fmicb.2021.715601	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485
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