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| Title |
Wolbachia association with the tsetse fly, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes, reveals high levels of genetic diversity and complex evolutionary dynamics
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-13-31 |
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| Authors |
Rebecca E Symula, Uzma Alam, Corey Brelsfoard, Yineng Wu, Richard Echodu, Loyce M Okedi, Serap Aksoy, Adalgisa Caccone |
| Abstract |
Wolbachia pipientis, a diverse group of α-proteobacteria, can alter arthropod host reproduction and confer a reproductive advantage to Wolbachia-infected females (cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI)). This advantage can alter host population genetics because Wolbachia-infected females produce more offspring with their own mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotypes than uninfected females. Thus, these host haplotypes become common or fixed (selective sweep). Although simulations suggest that for a CI-mediated sweep to occur, there must be a transient phase with repeated initial infections of multiple individual hosts by different Wolbachia strains, this has not been observed empirically. Wolbachia has been found in the tsetse fly, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes, but it is not limited to a single host haplotype, suggesting that CI did not impact its population structure. However, host population genetic differentiation could have been generated if multiple Wolbachia strains interacted in some populations. Here, we investigated Wolbachia genetic variation in G. f. fuscipes populations of known host genetic composition in Uganda. We tested for the presence of multiple Wolbachia strains using Multi-Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) and for an association between geographic region and host mtDNA haplotype using Wolbachia DNA sequence from a variable locus, groEL (heat shock protein 60). |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Uganda | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 88 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 32% |
| Researcher | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 8% |
| Professor | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 23 | 24% |
| Unknown | 6 | 6% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 53 | 56% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 19 | 20% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 2% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Unknown | 11 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
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