Symbiosis and Insect Diversification: an Ancient Symbiont of Sap-Feeding Insects from the Bacterial Phylum Bacteroidetes
Symbiosis and Insect Diversification: an Ancient Symbiont of Sap-Feeding Insects from the Bacterial Phylum Bacteroidetes
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2005
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J. Cryan;G. Monteith;K. Morishima;M. Whiting
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J. Cryan;G. Monteith;K. Morishima;M. Whiting
Several insect groups have obligate, vertically transmitted bacterial symbionts that provision hosts with nutrients that are limiting in the diet. Some of these bacteria have been shown to descend from ancient infections. Here we show that the large group of related insects including cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, spittlebugs, and planthoppers host a distinct clade of bacterial symbionts. This newly described symbiont lineage belongs to the phylum Bacteroidetes . Analyses of 16S rRNA genes indicate that the symbiont phylogeny is completely congruent with the phylogeny of insect hosts as currently known. These results support the ancient acquisition of a symbiont by a shared ancestor of these insects, dating the original infection to at least 260 million years ago. As visualized in a species of spittlebug (Cercopoidea) and in a species of sharpshooter (Cicadellinae), the symbionts have extraordinarily large cells with an elongate shape, often more than 30 (cid:1) m in length; in situ hybridizations verify that these correspond to the phylum Bacteroidetes . “ Candidatus Sulcia muelleri” is proposed as the name of the new symbiont. of late-stage nymphs of C. arizonana were dissected into PA buffer (50 mM Tris- HCl [pH 7.6], 100 mM EDTA, 250 mM sucrose), disrupted by manipulating gently under a coverslip, stained with SYBR-Gold, and examined using fluores- cence at a 1,000-fold magnification. The same procedure was applied to the entire bacteriome of Homalodisca lacerta . To determine the organisms corresponding to the Bacteroidetes rRNA gene sequences, in situ hybridization was performed. We used two probes, each 20 nucleotides long. One, CFB319 (5 (cid:2) -TGG TCC GTG TCT CAG TAC-3 (cid:2) ), was a perfect match to positions 319 to 336 of the 16S rRNA of Bacteroidetes species, including all of our sequences from these symbionts; this probe shows two or more mismatches to known bacteria in other phyla. The other, Pro319 (5 (cid:2) -TGG ACC GTG TCT CAG TTC-3 (cid:2) ), differed at two sites and was a perfect match to 16S rRNA sequences of Buchnera , “ Candidatus Baumannia cicadellinicola”, and some other Gammaproteobacteria . CFB319 was linked to 6-carboxytetramethyl-rhodamine (absorption/emission of 551/576 nm); Pro319 was linked to Alexa488 nm). determine the specificity hybridiza- bacteriocytes