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MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 30, 期 21, 页码 5605-5620出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16140
关键词
attini; fungi; Leucocoprinus; single nucleotide polymorphism; symbiosis; Trachymyrmex
资金
- Division of Integrative Organismal Systems [IOS-1552822]
- Division of Environmental Biology [DEB-1354629]
Recent studies on fungus-gardening ants and their symbiotic fungi have revealed varying degrees of fungal sharing among unrelated ant lineages, challenging the previous assumption of strong concordance between ants and their symbiotic fungi within major clades. Genomic analysis suggests that each ant species tends to exhibit fidelity to its own fungal subclade, supporting a pattern of codivergence between the ants and fungi. This implies that symbiont exchange within clades may be less common than previously thought.
Over the past few decades, large-scale phylogenetic analyses of fungus-gardening ants and their symbiotic fungi have depicted strong concordance among major clades of ants and their symbiotic fungi, yet within clades, fungus sharing is widespread among unrelated ant lineages. Sharing has been explained using a diffuse coevolution model within major clades. Understanding horizontal exchange within clades has been limited by conventional genetic markers that lack both interspecific and geographic variation. To examine whether reports of horizontal exchange were indeed due to symbiont sharing or the result of employing relatively uninformative molecular markers, samples of Trachymyrmex arizonensis and Trachymyrmex pomonae and their fungi were collected from native populations in Arizona and genotyped using conventional marker genes and genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Conventional markers of the fungal symbionts generally exhibited cophylogenetic patterns that were consistent with some symbiont sharing, but most fungal clades had low support. SNP analysis, in contrast, indicated that each ant species exhibited fidelity to its own fungal subclade with only one instance of a colony growing a fungus that was otherwise associated with a different ant species. This evidence supports a pattern of codivergence between Trachymyrmex species and their fungi, and thus a diffuse coevolutionary model may not accurately predict symbiont exchange. These results suggest that fungal sharing across host species in these symbioses may be less extensive than previously thought.
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