Variation in the prevalence of cytoplasmic incompatibility-inducing Wolbachia in the butterfly Eurema hecabe across the Japanese archipelago
Variation in the prevalence of cytoplasmic incompatibility-inducing Wolbachia in the butterfly Eurema hecabe across the Japanese archipelago
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日本列岛蝴蝶 Eurema hecabe 中细胞质不相容诱导的沃尔巴克氏体流行率的变化
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2005
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Y. Kato
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M. Hiroki;Y. Ishii;Y. Kato
Question: Is the prevalence of cytoplasmic incompatibility-inducing Wolbachia spreading throughout butterfly populations? Hypothesis: Wolbachia are self-promoting intracellular microbes and the infection spreads easily among host populations. Organism: Japanese pierid butterfly (Eurema hecabe). Field sites: Thirty-two haphazardly selected local populations throughout the Japanese archipelago. Methods: We surveyed Wolbachia infection from 1997 to 2000 using diagnostic PCR. An inter-population cross-experiment was performed to detect cytoplasmic incompatibility in 1992, 1999 and 2000. Conclusions: High Wolbachia frequencies were detected in southern populations, but no infection was found in the northern parts of Japan. Cytoplasmic incompatibility-inducing Wolbachia was found in the two main types of host (brown and yellow), which are reproductively isolated. The invasion of cytoplasmic incompatibility-inducing Wolbachia into the central Japanese populations has occurred within the last decade as shown by chronological data. Our data fit well with standard models of Wolbachia dynamics.
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2004
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J. Werren
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J. Werren