Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41340/23:97391

Result on the web

<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2023.0619" target="_blank" >https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2023.0619</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0619" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2023.0619</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale

Original language description

Termites host diverse communities of gut microbes, including many bacterial lineages only found in this habitat. The bacteria endemic to termite guts are transmitted via two routes: a vertical route from parent colonies to daughter colonies and a horizontal route between colonies sometimes belonging to different termite species. The relative importance of both transmission routes in shaping the gut microbiota of termites remains unknown. Using bacterial marker genes derived from the gut metagenomes of 197 termites and one Cryptocercus cockroach, we show that bacteria endemic to termite guts are mostly transferred vertically. We identified 18 lineages of gut bacteria showing cophylogenetic patterns with termites over tens of millions of years. Horizontal transfer rates estimated for 16 bacterial lineages were within the range of those estimated for 15 mitochondrial genes, suggesting that horizontal transfers are uncommon and vertical transfers are the dominant transmission route in these lineages. Some of these associations probably date back more than 150 million years and are an order of magnitude older than the cophylogenetic patterns between mammalian hosts and their gut bacteria. Our results suggest that termites have cospeciated with their gut bacteria since first appearing in the geological record.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

ISSN

0962-8452

e-ISSN

1471-2954

Volume of the periodical

290

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JUN 28

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

20230619

UT code for WoS article

001016169900009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85163503880