Paraburkholderia symbionts isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum induce bacterial carriage in other Dictyostelium species
Paraburkholderia symbionts isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum induce bacterial carriage in other Dictyostelium species
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DOI:
10.1098/rspb.2023.0977
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发表时间:
2023-07-26
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4.7
通讯作者:
Strassmann,Joan E. E.
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作者:
Mather,Rory Vu;Larsen,Tyler J. J.;Strassmann,Joan E. E.
The social amoebaDictyostelium discoideumengages in a complex relationship with bacterial endosymbionts in the genusParaburkholderia, which can benefit their host by imbuing it with the ability to carry prey bacteria throughout its life cycle. The relationship betweenD. discoideumandParaburkholderiahas been shown to take place across many strains and a large geographical area, but little is known aboutParaburkholderia's potential interaction with other dictyostelid species. We explore the ability of threeParaburkholderiaspecies to stably infect and induce bacterial carriage in other dictyostelid hosts. We found that all threeParaburkholderiaspecies successfully infected and induced carriage in seven species ofDictyosteliumhosts. While the overall behaviour was qualitatively similar to that previously observed in infections ofD. discoideum, differences in the outcomes of different host/symbiont combinations suggest a degree of specialization between partners.Paraburkholderiawas unable to maintain a stable association with the more distantly related hostPolysphondylium violaceum. Our results suggest that the mechanisms and evolutionary history ofParaburkholderia's symbiotic relationships may be general withinDictyosteliumhosts, but not so general that it can associate with hosts of other genera. Our work further develops an emerging model system for the study of symbiosis in microbes.