Prevalence and relationship of endosymbiotic Wolbachia in the butterfly genus Erebia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wolbachia is an endosymbiont common to most invertebrates, which can have significant evolutionary implications for its host species by acting as a barrier to gene flow. Despite the importance of Wolbachia, still little is known about its prevalence and diversification pattern among closely related host species. Wolbachia strains may phylogenetically coevolve with their hosts, unless horizontal host-switches are particularly common. We address  these issues in the genus Erebia, one of the most diverse Palearctic butterfly genera.

Results

We sequenced the Wolbachia genome from a strain infecting Erebia cassioides and showed that it belongs to the Wolbachia supergroup B, capable of infecting arthropods from different taxonomic orders. The prevalence of Wolbachia acr

SUBMITTER: Lucek K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8140509 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature