Genomic Comparison of Insect Gut Symbionts from Divergent Burkholderia Subclades
Genomic Comparison of Insect Gut Symbionts from Divergent Burkholderia Subclades
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DOI:
10.3390/genes11070744
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发表时间:
2020-07-01
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3.5
通讯作者:
Kikuchi, Yoshitomo
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作者:
Takeshita, Kazutaka;Kikuchi, Yoshitomo
Stink bugs of the superfamilies Coreoidea and Lygaeoidea establish gut symbioses with environmentally acquired bacteria of the genusBurkholderiasensu lato. In the genusBurkholderia, the stink bug-associated strains form a monophyletic clade, named stink bug-associated beneficial and environmental (SBE) clade (orCaballeronia). Recently, we revealed that members of the family Largidae of the superfamily Pyrrhocoroidea are associated withBurkholderiabut not specifically with the SBEBurkholderia; largid bugs harbor symbionts that belong to a clade of plant-associated group ofBurkholderia, called plant-associated beneficial and environmental (PBE) clade (orParaburkholderia). To understand the genomic features ofBurkholderiasymbionts of stink bugs, we isolated two symbioticBurkholderiastrains from a bordered plant bugPhysopellta gutta(Pyrrhocoroidea: Largidae) and determined their complete genomes. The genome sizes of the insect-associated PBE (iPBE) are 9.5 Mb and 11.2 Mb, both of which are larger than the genomes of the SBEBurkholderiasymbionts. A whole-genome comparison between two iPBE symbionts and three SBE symbionts highlighted that all previously reported symbiosis factors are shared and that 282 genes are specifically conserved in the five stink bug symbionts, over one-third of which have unknown function. Among the symbiont-specific genes, about 40 genes formed a cluster in all five symbionts; this suggests a "symbiotic island" in the genome of stink bug-associatedBurkholderia.