10.5061/DRYAD.4KT079G
Turelli, Michael
University of California System
Cooper, Brandon S.
University of California System
University of Montana
Richardson, Kelly M.
University of Melbourne
Ginsberg, Paul S.
University of California System
University of Georgia
Peckenpaugh, Brooke
University of California System
Indiana University Bloomington
Antelope, Chenling X.
University of California System
Kim, Kevin J.
University of California System
May, Michael R.
University of California System
Abrieux, Antoine
University of California System
Wilson, Derek A.
University of California System
Bronski, Michael J.
University of California System
Moore, Brian R.
University of California System
Gao, Jian-Jun
Eisen, Michael B.
University of California System
Chiu, Joanna C.
University of California System
Conner, William R.
University of California System
Hoffmann, Ary A.
University of Melbourne
Data from: RRapid global spread of wRi-like Wolbachia across multiple
Drosophila
Dryad
dataset
2019
mitochondrial variation
Wolbachia
horizontal transmission
disease control
mutualistic endosymbiont
cytoplasmic incompatibility
2019-02-06T00:00:00Z
2019-02-06T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.015
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Maternally transmitted Wolbachia, Spiroplasma and Cardinium bacteria are
common in insects, but their interspecific spread is poorly understood.
Endosymbionts can spread rapidly within host species by manipulating host
reproduction, as typified by the global spread of wRi Wolbachia observed
in Drosophila simulans. However, because Wolbachia cannot survive outside
host cells, spread between distantly related host species requires
horizontal transfers that are presumably rare. Here we document spread of
wRi-like Wolbachia among eight highly diverged Drosophila hosts (10–50
million years) over only about 14,000 years (5,000–27,000). Comparing 110
wRi-like genomes, we find ≤0.02% divergence from the wRi variant that
spread rapidly through California populations of D. simulans. The hosts
include both globally invasive species, D. simulans, D. suzukii and D.
ananassae , and narrowly distributed Australian endemics, D. anomalata and
D. pandora. Phylogenetic analyses that include mtDNA genomes indicate
introgressive transfer of wRi-like Wolbachia between closely related
species D. ananassa e , D. anomalata and D. pandora , but no horizontal
transmission within species. Our analyses suggest D. ananassae as the
Wolbachia source for the recent wRi invasion of D. simulans, and D.
suzukii as the source of Wolbachia in its sister species D. subpulchrella
. Although six of these wRi-like variants cause strong cytoplasmic
incompatibility, two cause no detectable reproductive effects, indicating
that pervasive mutualistic effects complement the reproductive
manipulations for which Wolbachia are best known. “Super spreader”
variants like wRi may be particularly useful for controlling insect pests
and vector-borne diseases with Wolbachia transinfections.
Data from: Rapid global spread of wRi-like Wolbachia across multiple
DrosophilaThis data archive contains the scripts and sequence data used
for the phylogenetic analyses in the accompanying manuscript (Turelli et
al., in press). A detailed description of the contents is provided in the
README.txt file.dryad_package.tar.gz