Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F20%3A00525193" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/20:00525193 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2020.0562" target="_blank" >https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2020.0562</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0562" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2020.0562</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent
Original language description
Many microbial symbionts have multiple phenotypic consequences for their animal hosts. However, the ways in which different symbiont-mediated phenotypes combine to affect fitness are not well understood. We investigated whether there are correlations between different symbiont-mediated phenotypes. We used the symbiont Spiroplasma, a striking example of a bacterial symbiont conferring diverse phenotypes on insect hosts. We took 11 strains of Spiroplasma infecting pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) and assessed their ability to provide protection against the fungal pathogen Pandora neoaphidis and the parasitoids Aphidius ervi and Praon volucre. We also assessed effects on male offspring production for five of the Spiroplasma strains. All but one of the Spiroplasma strains provided very strong protection against the parasitoid P. volucre. As previously reported, variable protection against P. neoaphidis and A. ervi was also present, male-killing was likewise a variable phenotype. We find no evidence of any correlation, positive or negative, between the different phenotypes, nor was there any evidence of an effect of symbiont phylogeny on protective phenotype. We conclude that multiple symbiont-mediated phenotypes can evolve independently from one another without trade-offs between them.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10606 - Microbiology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ17-27184Y" target="_blank" >GJ17-27184Y: Impact of temperature on host-parasitoid food webs: role of immunity and symbiotic bacteria</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Proceedings of the Royal Society. B - Biological Sciences
ISSN
0962-8452
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
287
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1929
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
20200562
UT code for WoS article
000544610600003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85086686387