Microbiome composition within a sympatric species complex of intertidal isopods (Jaera albifrons)

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 8; p. e0202212
• Main Authors: Wenzel, Marius A, Douglas, Alex, Piertney, Stuart B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 29.08.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Bacteria; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - isolation & purification; Bacteroidetes - genetics; Bacteroidetes - isolation & purification; Biology and Life Sciences; Cell proliferation; Composition; Distortion; Ecology; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Ecosystem; Environmental factors; Evolution; Female; Females; Genetic Speciation; Genetic Variation; Genomes; Host Microbial Interactions - genetics; Infections; Intertidal zone; Isopoda; Isopoda - microbiology; Isopods; Jaera albifrons; Male; Males; Mating behavior; Medicine and Health Sciences; Microbiomes; Microbiota; Microbiota - genetics; Natural populations; Parasites; Phylogeny; Physiology; Preferences; Proteobacteria - genetics; Proteobacteria - isolation & purification; Reproductive isolation; Research and Analysis Methods; RNA, Bacterial - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; rRNA 16S; Scotland; Sex; Sex Factors; Sex ratio; Speciation; Species; Sympatric populations; Sympatry; Waterborne diseases; Wolbachia; Scotland; United Kingdom > UK; Louisiana

The increasingly recognised effects of microbiomes on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of their hosts are promoting a view of the "hologenome" as an integral host-symbiont evolutionary entity. For example, sex-ratio distorting reproductive parasites such as Wolbachia are well-studied pivotal...