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| Chevignon, Germain; Boyd, Bret M.; Brandt, Jayce W.; Oliver, Kerry M.; Strand, Michael R.. |
| Many insects host facultative, bacterial symbionts that confer conditional fitness benefits to their hosts. Hamiltonella defensa is a common facultative symbiont of aphids that provides protection against parasitoid wasps. Protection levels vary among strains of H. defensa that are also differentially infected by bacteriophages named APSEs. However, little is known about trait variation among strains because only one isolate has been fully sequenced. Generating complete genomes for facultative symbionts is hindered by relatively large genome sizes but low abundances in hosts like aphids that are very small. Here, we took advantage of methods for culturing H. defensa outside of aphids to generate complete genomes and transcriptome data for four strains of... |
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Palavras-chave: Insect; Aphid; Bacteria; Comparative genomics; Parasitoid; Defense. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00635/74665/74590.pdf |
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| Chevignon, Germain; Foray, Vincent; Pérez-jiménez, Mercedes Maria; Libro, Silvia; Chung, Matthew; Foster, Jeremy M.; Landmann, Frédéric. |
| Brugia malayi is a human filarial nematode responsible for elephantiasis, a debilitating condition that is part of a broader spectrum of diseases called filariasis, including lymphatic filariasis and river blindness. Almost all filarial nematode species infecting humans live in mutualism with Wolbachia endosymbionts, present in somatic hypodermal tissues but also in the female germline which ensures their vertical transmission to the nematode progeny. These α-proteobacteria potentially provision their host with essential metabolites and protect the parasite against the vertebrate immune response. In the absence of Wolbachia wBm, B. malayi females become sterile, and the filarial nematode lifespan is greatly reduced. In order to better comprehend this... |
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| Ano: 2021 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00668/77991/80201.pdf |
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| Patel, Vilas; Chevignon, Germain; Manzano-marin, Alejandro; Brandt, Jayce W.; Strand, Michael R.; Russell, Jacob A.; Oliver, Kerry M.. |
| Heritable symbionts are common in terrestrial arthropods and often provide beneficial services to hosts. Unlike obligate, nutritional symbionts that largely persist under strict host control within specialized host cells, heritable facultative symbionts exhibit large variation in within-host lifestyles and services rendered with many retaining the capacity to transition among roles. One enigmatic symbiont, Candidatus Fukatsuia symbiotica, frequently infects aphids with reported roles ranging from pathogen, defensive symbiont, mutualism exploiter, and nutritional co-obligate symbiont. Here, we used an in vitro culture-assisted protocol to sequence the genome of a facultative strain of Fukatsuia from pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum). Phylogenetic and genomic... |
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Palavras-chave: Heritable symbiont; Bacteria; Comparative genomics; Insect; Evolutionary transition. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00635/74663/74594.pdf |
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