Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent
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. W...
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| author | McLean, AHC Hrček, J Parker, BJ Mathé-Hubert, H Kaech, H Paine, C Godfray, HCJ |
| author_facet | McLean, AHC Hrček, J Parker, BJ Mathé-Hubert, H Kaech, H Paine, C Godfray, HCJ |
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| 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. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0c334d6e-9580-42e6-ad9e-b924577d713e2022-03-26T09:33:38ZMultiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independentJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0c334d6e-9580-42e6-ad9e-b924577d713eEnglishSymplectic ElementsRoyal Society2020McLean, AHCHrček, JParker, BJMathé-Hubert, HKaech, HPaine, CGodfray, HCJMany 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. |
| spellingShingle | McLean, AHC Hrček, J Parker, BJ Mathé-Hubert, H Kaech, H Paine, C Godfray, HCJ Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent |
| title | Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent |
| title_full | Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent |
| title_fullStr | Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent |
| title_short | Multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent |
| title_sort | multiple phenotypes conferred by a single insect symbiont are independent |
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