Community-wide analysis of horizontal symbiont transmission: oak gallwasps as a model system.

水平共生传播的社区范围分析：橡木黄蜂作为模型系统。

• 批准号: NE/D007178/1
• 负责人: Graham Stone
• 金额: $ 6.81万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FD007178%2F1
• 关键词: Community; wide; analysis; horizontal; symbiont

Many insects are infected by microorganisms, including bacteria called Wolbachia and Cardinium, that are passed from a mother to its offspring. These bacteria have a range of effects on the reproduction of their insect carriers, some of which are severe. Some of these bacteria have been proposed as a means by which harmful insects could be controlled. However, to plan for use of such approaches, we need to know if the bacteria involved can 'jump' (a process termed horizontal transmission) from one insect to another. This must happen, because very similar bacteria are commonly found in very different insects, but how it happens remains little understood. This project will look at a closely interacting set of insect species that inhabit a range of different galls on oaks. These communities consist of a specific set of prey species (the wasps that make the galls), and others that feed on them (primarily parasitic wasps). The project will assess the extent to which these two groups have exchanged bacteria, and test several hypotheses about which type of interaction are more likely to result in transmission.

许多昆虫被微生物感染，包括被称为沃尔巴克氏体和Cardinium的细菌，这些细菌从母亲传给后代。这些细菌对其昆虫载体的繁殖有一系列影响，其中一些是严重的。这些细菌中的一些已经被提议作为控制有害昆虫的一种手段。然而，为了计划使用这种方法，我们需要知道所涉及的细菌是否可以从一种昆虫“跳跃”（一个称为水平传播的过程）到另一种昆虫。这种情况一定会发生，因为在非常不同的昆虫中通常会发现非常相似的细菌，但人们对它是如何发生的知之甚少。这个项目将着眼于一组密切相互作用的昆虫物种，栖息在橡树上的一系列不同的虫瘿。这些群落由一组特定的猎物物种（制造虫瘿的黄蜂）和以它们为食的其他物种（主要是寄生黄蜂）组成。该项目将评估这两个群体交换细菌的程度，并测试关于哪种类型的相互作用更有可能导致传播的几种假设。

项目成果

On the morphology of the terminal-instar larvae of some European species of Sycophila (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) parasitoids of gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

欧洲某些种类的瘿蜂（膜翅目：广翅目）寄生蜂（膜翅目：食蜂科）的终龄幼虫的形态

• DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791937
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Journal of Natural History
• 影响因子: 0.8
• 作者: Gómez J

Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria.

• DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-6
• 发表时间: 2009-02-02
• 期刊: BMC biology
• 影响因子: 5.4
• 作者: Weinert LA;Werren JH;Aebi A;Stone GN;Jiggins FM
• 通讯作者: Jiggins FM

Western Palaearctic phylogeography of an inquiline oak gall wasp, Synergus umbraculus PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF AN INQUILINE GALL WASP

西古北界的柞树瘿蜂，Synergus umbraculus 系统发育地理学

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01609.x
• 发表时间: 2011
• 期刊: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: BIHARI P