期刊
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 2, 期 10, 页码 2516-2521出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.354
关键词
Bacteriocins; entomopathogenic bacteria; interspecific interactions; intraspecific interactions; recognition mechanisms; Xenorhabdus bacteria
资金
- NSF [DEB 0515832, 0919015]
- Indiana METACyt Initiative of Indiana University
- Lilly Endowment, Inc.
- United States-Israel Educational Foundation
- Israel Science Foundation
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [0919015] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Bacteriocins are bacteriocidal toxins released by almost all bacteria. They are thought to have a narrow range of killing, but as bacteriocin-mediated interactions have been rarely studied at biologically relevant scales, whether this narrow range of action falls mostly within or mostly between coexisting species in natural communities is an open question with important ecological and evolutionary implications. In a previous study, we systematically sampled Xenorhabdus bacteria along a hillside and found evidence for genotypic variability and bacteriocin-mediated interactions within Xenorhabdus bovienii and X. koppenhoeferi colonies that were collected only a few meters apart. In contrast, colonies that were isolated from the same soil sample were always genetically similar and showed no inhibitions. Here, we conducted pairwise growth-inhibition assays within and between seven X. bovienii and five X. koppenhoeferi colonies that were isolated from different soil samples; all seven X. bovienii colonies and at least three of the X. koppenhoeferi have been distinguished as distinct genotypes based on coarse-grain genomic markers. We found signatures for both conspecific and heterospecific bacteriocin inhibitions in this natural community of Xenorhabdus bacteria, but intraspecific inhibitions were significantly more common than interspecific inhibitions. These results suggest that bacteriocins have a major role in intraspecific competition in nature, but also suggest that bacterocins are important in mediating interspecific interactions among coexisting species in natural communities.
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