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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 75, 期 16, 页码 5328-5335出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00717-09
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- NSF [0313737, OISE9600300]
- Emerging Frontiers
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0313737] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Many aphids harbor a variety of endosymbiotic bacteria. The functions of these symbionts can range from an obligate nutritional role to a facultative role in protecting their hosts against environmental stresses. One such symbiont is Candidatus Serratia symbiotica, which is involved in defense against heat and potentially also in aphid nutrition. Lachnid aphids have been the focus of several recent studies investigating the transition of this symbiont from a facultative symbiont to an obligate symbiont. In a phylogenetic analysis of Serratia symbionts from 51 lachnid hosts, we found that diversity in symbiont morphology, distribution, and function is due to multiple independent origins of symbiosis from ancestors belonging to Serratia and possibly also to evolution within distinct symbiont clades. Our results do not support cocladogenesis of Ca. Serratia symbiotica with Cinara subgenus Cinara species and weigh against an obligate nutritional role. Finally, we show that species belonging to the subfamily Lachninae have a high incidence of facultative symbiont infection.
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