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ISME JOURNAL
卷 15, 期 10, 页码 2956-2968出版社
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00977-z
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- BBSRC iCASE studentship [BB/L016133/1]
- Bee Disease Insurance Ltd.
- Centre for Cell Imaging (CCI) [BB/M012441/1]
This study describes a symbiosis between a member of the genus Arsenophonus and the Western honey bee. While the symbiont shares common genomic properties with Arsenophonus nasoniae, evidence suggests that the bee Arsenophonus deviates from a heritable transmission model, with evidence of horizontal transmission between bees.
A dynamic continuum exists from free-living environmental microbes to strict host-associated symbionts that are vertically inherited. However, knowledge of the forces that drive transitions in symbiotic lifestyle and transmission mode is lacking. Arsenophonus is a diverse clade of bacterial symbionts, comprising reproductive parasites to coevolving obligate mutualists, in which the predominant mode of transmission is vertical. We describe a symbiosis between a member of the genus Arsenophonus and the Western honey bee. The symbiont shares common genomic and predicted metabolic properties with the male-killing symbiont Arsenophonus nasoniae, however we present multiple lines of evidence that the bee Arsenophonus deviates from a heritable model of transmission. Field sampling uncovered spatial and seasonal dynamics in symbiont prevalence, and rapid infection loss events were observed in field colonies and laboratory individuals. Fluorescent in situ hybridisation showed Arsenophonus localised in the gut, and detection was rare in screens of early honey bee life stages. We directly show horizontal transmission of Arsenophonus between bees under varying social conditions. We conclude that honey bees acquire Arsenophonus through a combination of environmental exposure and social contacts. These findings uncover a key link in the Arsenophonus clades trajectory from free-living ancestral life to obligate mutualism, and provide a foundation for studying transitions in symbiotic lifestyle.
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