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Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies
The bacterium Wolbachia infects many insect species and spreads by diverse vertical and horizontal means. As co-inherited organisms, these bacteria often cause problems in mitochondrial phylogeny inference. The phylogenetic relationships of many closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies (Lepidopt...
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author | Sucháčková Bartoňová, Alena Konvička, Martin Marešová, Jana Wiemers, Martin Ignatev, Nikolai Wahlberg, Niklas Schmitt, Thomas Faltýnek Fric, Zdeněk |
author_facet | Sucháčková Bartoňová, Alena Konvička, Martin Marešová, Jana Wiemers, Martin Ignatev, Nikolai Wahlberg, Niklas Schmitt, Thomas Faltýnek Fric, Zdeněk |
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description | The bacterium Wolbachia infects many insect species and spreads by diverse vertical and horizontal means. As co-inherited organisms, these bacteria often cause problems in mitochondrial phylogeny inference. The phylogenetic relationships of many closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae) are ambiguous. We considered the patterns of Wolbachia infection and mitochondrial diversity in two systems: Aricia agestis/Aricia artaxerxes and the Pseudophilotes baton species complex. We sampled butterflies across their distribution ranges and sequenced one butterfly mitochondrial gene and two Wolbachia genes. Both butterfly systems had uninfected and infected populations, and harboured several Wolbachia strains. Wolbachia was highly prevalent in A. artaxerxes and the host’s mitochondrial structure was shallow, in contrast to A. agestis. Similar bacterial alleles infected both Aricia species from nearby sites, pointing to a possible horizontal transfer. Mitochondrial history of the P. baton species complex mirrored its Wolbachia infection and not the taxonomical division. Pseudophilotes baton and P. vicrama formed a hybrid zone in Europe. Wolbachia could obscure mitochondrial history, but knowledge on the infection helps us to understand the observed patterns. Testing for Wolbachia should be routine in mitochondrial DNA studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-78626912021-02-08 Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies Sucháčková Bartoňová, Alena Konvička, Martin Marešová, Jana Wiemers, Martin Ignatev, Nikolai Wahlberg, Niklas Schmitt, Thomas Faltýnek Fric, Zdeněk Sci Rep Article The bacterium Wolbachia infects many insect species and spreads by diverse vertical and horizontal means. As co-inherited organisms, these bacteria often cause problems in mitochondrial phylogeny inference. The phylogenetic relationships of many closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae) are ambiguous. We considered the patterns of Wolbachia infection and mitochondrial diversity in two systems: Aricia agestis/Aricia artaxerxes and the Pseudophilotes baton species complex. We sampled butterflies across their distribution ranges and sequenced one butterfly mitochondrial gene and two Wolbachia genes. Both butterfly systems had uninfected and infected populations, and harboured several Wolbachia strains. Wolbachia was highly prevalent in A. artaxerxes and the host’s mitochondrial structure was shallow, in contrast to A. agestis. Similar bacterial alleles infected both Aricia species from nearby sites, pointing to a possible horizontal transfer. Mitochondrial history of the P. baton species complex mirrored its Wolbachia infection and not the taxonomical division. Pseudophilotes baton and P. vicrama formed a hybrid zone in Europe. Wolbachia could obscure mitochondrial history, but knowledge on the infection helps us to understand the observed patterns. Testing for Wolbachia should be routine in mitochondrial DNA studies. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7862691/ /pubmed/33542272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82433-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Sucháčková Bartoňová, Alena Konvička, Martin Marešová, Jana Wiemers, Martin Ignatev, Nikolai Wahlberg, Niklas Schmitt, Thomas Faltýnek Fric, Zdeněk Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies |
title | Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies |
title_full | Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies |
title_fullStr | Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies |
title_full_unstemmed | Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies |
title_short | Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies |
title_sort | wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related palaearctic blue butterflies |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7862691/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33542272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82433-8 |
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