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Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups
In the ocean, most hosts acquire their symbionts from the environment. Due to the immense spatial scales involved, our understanding of the biogeography of hosts and symbionts in marine systems is patchy, although this knowledge is essential for understanding fundamental aspects of symbiosis such as...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34272286 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2104378118 |
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author | Osvatic, Jay T. Wilkins, Laetitia G. E. Leibrecht, Lukas Leray, Matthieu Zauner, Sarah Polzin, Julia Camacho, Yolanda Gros, Olivier van Gils, Jan A. Eisen, Jonathan A. Petersen, Jillian M. Yuen, Benedict |
author_facet | Osvatic, Jay T. Wilkins, Laetitia G. E. Leibrecht, Lukas Leray, Matthieu Zauner, Sarah Polzin, Julia Camacho, Yolanda Gros, Olivier van Gils, Jan A. Eisen, Jonathan A. Petersen, Jillian M. Yuen, Benedict |
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description | In the ocean, most hosts acquire their symbionts from the environment. Due to the immense spatial scales involved, our understanding of the biogeography of hosts and symbionts in marine systems is patchy, although this knowledge is essential for understanding fundamental aspects of symbiosis such as host–symbiont specificity and evolution. Lucinidae is the most species-rich and widely distributed family of marine bivalves hosting autotrophic bacterial endosymbionts. Previous molecular surveys identified location-specific symbiont types that “promiscuously” form associations with multiple divergent cooccurring host species. This flexibility of host–microbe pairings is thought to underpin their global success, as it allows hosts to form associations with locally adapted symbionts. We used metagenomics to investigate the biodiversity, functional variability, and genetic exchange among the endosymbionts of 12 lucinid host species from across the globe. We report a cosmopolitan symbiont species, Candidatus Thiodiazotropha taylori, associated with multiple lucinid host species. Ca. T. taylori has achieved more success at dispersal and establishing symbioses with lucinids than any other symbiont described thus far. This discovery challenges our understanding of symbiont dispersal and location-specific colonization and suggests both symbiont and host flexibility underpin the ecological and evolutionary success of the lucinid symbiosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-83072962021-07-28 Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups Osvatic, Jay T. Wilkins, Laetitia G. E. Leibrecht, Lukas Leray, Matthieu Zauner, Sarah Polzin, Julia Camacho, Yolanda Gros, Olivier van Gils, Jan A. Eisen, Jonathan A. Petersen, Jillian M. Yuen, Benedict Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Biological Sciences In the ocean, most hosts acquire their symbionts from the environment. Due to the immense spatial scales involved, our understanding of the biogeography of hosts and symbionts in marine systems is patchy, although this knowledge is essential for understanding fundamental aspects of symbiosis such as host–symbiont specificity and evolution. Lucinidae is the most species-rich and widely distributed family of marine bivalves hosting autotrophic bacterial endosymbionts. Previous molecular surveys identified location-specific symbiont types that “promiscuously” form associations with multiple divergent cooccurring host species. This flexibility of host–microbe pairings is thought to underpin their global success, as it allows hosts to form associations with locally adapted symbionts. We used metagenomics to investigate the biodiversity, functional variability, and genetic exchange among the endosymbionts of 12 lucinid host species from across the globe. We report a cosmopolitan symbiont species, Candidatus Thiodiazotropha taylori, associated with multiple lucinid host species. Ca. T. taylori has achieved more success at dispersal and establishing symbioses with lucinids than any other symbiont described thus far. This discovery challenges our understanding of symbiont dispersal and location-specific colonization and suggests both symbiont and host flexibility underpin the ecological and evolutionary success of the lucinid symbiosis. National Academy of Sciences 2021-07-20 2021-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8307296/ /pubmed/34272286 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2104378118 Text en Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Biological Sciences Osvatic, Jay T. Wilkins, Laetitia G. E. Leibrecht, Lukas Leray, Matthieu Zauner, Sarah Polzin, Julia Camacho, Yolanda Gros, Olivier van Gils, Jan A. Eisen, Jonathan A. Petersen, Jillian M. Yuen, Benedict Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups |
title | Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups |
title_full | Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups |
title_fullStr | Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups |
title_full_unstemmed | Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups |
title_short | Global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups |
title_sort | global biogeography of chemosynthetic symbionts reveals both localized and globally distributed symbiont groups |
topic | Biological Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34272286 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2104378118 |
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