Pervasive horizontal transmission of Wolbachia in natural populations of closely related and widespread tropical skipper butterflies

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F25%3A00604414" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/25:00604414 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/25:43909836 RIV/61988987:17310/25:A26039VG

Result on the web

<a href="https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12866-024-03719-1.pdf" target="_blank" >https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12866-024-03719-1.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-024-03719-1" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12866-024-03719-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pervasive horizontal transmission of Wolbachia in natural populations of closely related and widespread tropical skipper butterflies

Original language description

BackgroundThe endosymbiotic relationship between Wolbachia bacteria and insects has been of interest for many years due to their diverse types of host reproductive phenotypic manipulation and potential role in the host's evolutionary history and population dynamics. Even though infection rates are high in Lepidoptera and specifically in butterflies, and reproductive manipulation is present in these taxa, less attention has been given to understanding how Wolbachia is acquired and maintained in their natural populations, across and within species having continental geographical distributions.ResultsWe used whole genome sequencing data to investigate the phylogenetics, demographic history, and infection rate dynamics of Wolbachia in four species of the Spicauda genus of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), a taxon that presents sympatric and often syntopic distribution, with drastic variability in species abundance in the Neotropical region. We show that infection is maintained by high turnover rates driven mainly by pervasive horizontal transmissions, while also presenting novel cases of double infection by distantly related supergroups of Wolbachia in S. simplicius.ConclusionsOur results suggest that Wolbachia population dynamics is host species-specific, with genetic cohesiveness across wide geographical distributions. We demonstrate that low coverage whole genome sequencing data can be used for an exhaustive assessment of Wolbachia infection in natural populations of butterflies, as well as its dynamics in closely related host species. This ultimately leads to a better understanding of the endosymbiotic population dynamics of Wolbachia and its effects on the host's biology and evolution.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GC22-35084J" target="_blank" >GC22-35084J: Evolutionary mechanisms that shape diversity and distribution in a tropical biodiversity hotspot</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

BMC Microbiology

ISSN

1471-2180

e-ISSN

1471-2180

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

5

UT code for WoS article

001391672100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85214400157