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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 105, 期 41, 页码 15944-15949出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807707105
关键词
eukaryotic life cycle; haplo-diploidy; marine viruses; host-parasite interaction; Red Queen
资金
- Fundacao Para a Ciencia e para a Tecnologia, Portugal
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-05-BIODIV-004]
- NERC [pml010004, NE/D001455/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [pml010004, NE/D001455/1] Funding Source: researchfish
The coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi is one of the most successful eukaryotes in modern oceans. The two phases in its haplodiploid life cycle exhibit radically different phenotypes. The diploid calcified phase forms extensive blooms, which profoundly impact global biogeochemical equilibria. By contrast, the ecological role of the noncalcified haploid phase has been completely overlooked. Giant phycodnaviruses (Emiliania huxleyi viruses, EhVs) have been shown to infect and lyse diploid-phase cells and to be heavily implicated in the regulation of populations and the termination of blooms. Here, we demonstrate that the haploid phase of E. huxleyi is unrecognizable and therefore resistant to EhVs that kill the diploid phase. We further show that exposure of diploid E. huxleyi to EhVs induces transition to the haploid phase. Thus we have clearly demonstrated a drastic difference in viral susceptibility between life cycle stages with different ploidy levels in a unicellular eukaryote. Resistance of the haploid phase of E. huxleyi provides an escape mechanism that involves separation of meiosis from sexual fusion in time, thus ensuring that genes of dominant diploid clones are passed on to the next generation in a virus-free environment. These Cheshire Cat ecological dynamics release host evolution from pathogen pressure and thus can be seen as an opposite force to a classic Red Queen coevolutionary arms race. In E. huxleyi, this phenomenon can account for the fact that the selective balance is tilted toward the boom-and-bust scenario of optimization of both growth rates of calcifying E. huxleyi cells and infectivity of EhVs.
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