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Tollenaere C, Lacombe S, Wonni I, Barro M, Ndougonna C, Gnacko F, Sérémé D, Jacobs JM, Hebrard E, Cunnac S, Brugidou C. Virus-Bacteria Rice Co-Infection in Africa: Field Estimation, Reciprocal Effects, Molecular Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Implications. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:645. [PMID: 28507553 PMCID: PMC5410622 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Simultaneous infection of a single plant by various pathogen species is increasingly recognized as an important modulator of host resistance and a driver of pathogen evolution. Because plants in agro-ecosystems are the target of a multitude of pathogenic microbes, co-infection could be frequent, and consequently important to consider. This is particularly true for rapidly intensifying crops, such as rice in Africa. This study investigated potential interactions between pathogens causing two of the major rice diseases in Africa: the Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) and the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pathovar oryzicola (Xoc) in order to: 1/ document virus-bacteria co-infection in rice in the field, 2/ explore experimentally their consequences in terms of symptom development and pathogen multiplication, 3/ test the hypothesis of underlying molecular mechanisms of interactions and 4/ explore potential evolutionary consequences. Field surveys in Burkina Faso revealed that a significant proportion of rice fields were simultaneously affected by the two diseases. Co-infection leads to an increase in bacterial specific symptoms, while a decrease in viral load is observed compared to the mono-infected mock. The lack of effect found when using a bacterial mutant for an effector specifically inducing expression of a small RNA regulatory protein, HEN1, as well as a viral genotype-specific effect, both suggest a role for gene silencing mechanisms mediating the within-plant interaction between RYMV and Xoc. Potential implications for pathogen evolution could not be inferred because genotype-specific effects were found only for pathogens originating from different countries, and consequently not meeting in the agrosystem. We argue that pathogen-pathogen-host interactions certainly deserve more attention, both from a theoretical and applied point of view.
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- Charlotte Tollenaere
- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes-Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cirad, Univ MontpellierMontpellier, France
- Laboratoire Mixte International Patho-Bios, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
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- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes-Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cirad, Univ MontpellierMontpellier, France
- Laboratoire Mixte International Patho-Bios, Laboratoire de Virologie et de Biotechnologies Végétales, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)Kamboinsé, Burkina Faso
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- Laboratoire Mixte International Patho-Bios, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
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- Laboratoire Mixte International Patho-Bios, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
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- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes-Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cirad, Univ MontpellierMontpellier, France
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- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes-Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cirad, Univ MontpellierMontpellier, France
- Laboratoire Mixte International Patho-Bios, Laboratoire de Virologie et de Biotechnologies Végétales, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)Kamboinsé, Burkina Faso
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- Laboratoire Mixte International Patho-Bios, Laboratoire de Virologie et de Biotechnologies Végétales, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)Kamboinsé, Burkina Faso
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- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes-Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cirad, Univ MontpellierMontpellier, France
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- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes-Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cirad, Univ MontpellierMontpellier, France
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- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes-Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cirad, Univ MontpellierMontpellier, France
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- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes-Environnement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cirad, Univ MontpellierMontpellier, France
- Laboratoire Mixte International Patho-Bios, Laboratoire de Virologie et de Biotechnologies Végétales, Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)Kamboinsé, Burkina Faso
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Sofonea MT, Alizon S, Michalakis Y. Exposing the diversity of multiple infection patterns. J Theor Biol 2017; 419:278-289. [PMID: 28193485 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2016] [Revised: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Natural populations often have to cope with genetically distinct parasites that can coexist, or not, within the same hosts. Theoretical models addressing the evolution of virulence have considered two within host infection outcomes, namely superinfection and coinfection. The field somehow became limited by this dichotomy that does not correspond to an empirical reality as other infection patterns, namely sets of within-host infection outcomes, are possible. We indeed formally prove there are over one hundred different infection patterns solely for recoverable chronic infections caused by two genetically distinct horizontally-transmitted microparasites. We afterwards highlight eight infection patterns using an explicit modelling of within-host dynamics that captures a large range of ecological interactions, five of which have been neglected so far. To clarify the terminology related to multiple infections, we introduce terms describing these new relevant patterns and illustrate them with existing biological systems. These infection patterns constitute a new framework for linking within-host and between-host dynamics, which is a requirement to forward our understanding of the epidemiology and the evolution of parasites.
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- Mircea T Sofonea
- Laboratoire MIVEGEC (UMR CNRS 5290, IRD 224, UM), 911 avenue Agropolis, B.P. 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
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- Laboratoire MIVEGEC (UMR CNRS 5290, IRD 224, UM), 911 avenue Agropolis, B.P. 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Laboratoire MIVEGEC (UMR CNRS 5290, IRD 224, UM), 911 avenue Agropolis, B.P. 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Pinworm diversity in free-ranging howler monkeys (Alouatta spp.) in Mexico: Morphological and molecular evidence for two new Trypanoxyuris species (Nematoda: Oxyuridae). Parasitol Int 2016; 65:401-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2016.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Revised: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 05/31/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Death Becomes Them: Bacterial Community Dynamics and Stilbene Antibiotic Production in Cadavers of Galleria mellonella Killed by Heterorhabditis and Photorhabdus spp. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:5824-37. [PMID: 27451445 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01211-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 07/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Insect larvae killed by entomopathogenic nematodes are thought to contain bacterial communities dominated by a single bacterial genus, that of the nematode's bacterial symbiont. In this study, we used next-generation sequencing to profile bacterial community dynamics in greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella) larvae cadavers killed by Heterorhabditis nematodes and their Photorhabdus symbionts. We found that, although Photorhabdus strains did initially displace an Enterococcus-dominated community present in uninfected G. mellonella insect larvae, the cadaver community was not static. Twelve days postinfection, Photorhabdus shared the cadaver with Stenotrophomonas species. Consistent with this result, Stenotrophomonas strains isolated from infected cadavers were resistant to Photorhabdus-mediated toxicity in solid coculture assays. We isolated and characterized a Photorhabdus-produced antibiotic from G. mellonella cadavers, produced it synthetically, and demonstrated that both the natural and synthetic compounds decreased G. mellonella-associated Enterococcus growth, but not Stenotrophomonas growth, in vitro Finally, we showed that the Stenotrophomonas strains described here negatively affected Photorhabdus growth in vitro Our results add an important dimension to a broader understanding of Heterorhabditis-Photorhabdus biology and also demonstrate that interspecific bacterial competition likely characterizes even a theoretically monoxenic environment, such as a Heterorhabditis-Photorhabdus-parasitized insect cadaver. IMPORTANCE Understanding, and eventually manipulating, both human and environmental health depends on a complete accounting of the forces that act on and shape microbial communities. One of these underlying forces is hypothesized to be resource competition. A resource that has received little attention in the general microbiological literature, but likely has ecological and evolutionary importance, is dead/decaying multicellular organisms. Metazoan cadavers, including those of insects, are ephemeral and nutrient-rich environments, where resource competition might shape interspecific macrobiotic and microbiotic interactions. This study is the first to use a next-generation sequencing approach to study the community dynamics of bacteria within a model insect cadaver system: insect larvae parasitized by entomopathogenic nematodes and their bacterial symbionts. By integrating bioinformatic, biochemical, and classic in vitro microbiological approaches, we have provided mechanistic insight into how antibiotic-mediated bacterial interactions may shape community dynamics within insect cadavers.
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Seppälä O, Jokela J. Do Coinfections Maintain Genetic Variation in Parasites? Trends Parasitol 2016; 32:930-938. [PMID: 27614425 DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2016] [Revised: 07/04/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Host individuals are often infected with multiple, potentially interacting parasite species and genotypes. Such coinfections have consequences for epidemiology, disease severity, and evolution of parasite virulence. As fitness effects of coinfection can be specific to interacting parasite genotypes, coinfections may induce high fitness variation among parasite genotypes. We argue that such interactions can be an important mechanism maintaining genetic variation in parasite traits such as infectivity and virulence. We also argue that such interactions may slow coevolutionary dynamics between hosts and parasites. This is because, instead of depending only on host genotype, parasite fitness may be determined by average infection success across all coinfection scenarios.
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- Otto Seppälä
- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland; ETH Zürich, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland; ETH Zürich, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Mordecai EA, Jaramillo AG, Ashford JE, Hechinger RF, Lafferty KD. The role of competition - colonization tradeoffs and spatial heterogeneity in promoting trematode coexistence. Ecology 2016; 97:1484-1496. [DOI: 10.1890/15-0753.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2015] [Revised: 11/20/2015] [Accepted: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Erin A. Mordecai
- Department of Biology; Stanford University; Stanford California 94305 USA
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- Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology; University of California; Santa Barbara California USA
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- Environmental Sciences Department, Geology 2258, 900; University Ave; Riverside California USA
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- Marine Biology Research Division; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; University of California; San Diego California 92093 USA
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- US Geological Survey; Western Ecological Research Center; c/o Marine Science Institute; University of California; Santa Barbara California 93106 USA
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Bashey F, Sarin T, Lively CM. Aging alters interspecific competition between two sympatric insect-parasitic nematode species. Ecol Evol 2016; 6:3750-3759. [PMID: 27231533 PMCID: PMC4864284 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Revised: 03/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Interspecific competition can vary depending on the stage, age, or physiological state of the competitors. Competitive ability often increases with age or size; alternatively, senescence can lead to a loss of viability and reduced competitive success. Differences between species in their age‐specific competitive abilities can promote coexistence in the face of substantial niche overlap. We examined two sympatric species of nematodes (genus Steinernema) to determine whether their competitive relationship changes as a function of age. These obligately killing insect parasites are known for their broad host ranges and are transmitted from insect to insect via a juvenile stage propagule that is free‐living in the soil. Here, we tested whether the two species differed in the effects of age by examining the mortality of insect hosts infected with young or old transmission stage nematodes of each species. We also performed mixed infections, where an equal ratio of both species was simultaneously exposed to a host, to determine the effect of age on competitiveness. One species showed reduced performance with age, as older propagules were slower at inducing host mortality. In contrast, the other species increased in killing speed with age. In competition, insect mortality rate was predictive of competitive outcome, such that if one species induced considerably faster host death in a single‐species infection, it was competitively dominant in the coinfection. Accordingly, we found a shift in the competitive relationship between the two species with age. Our work demonstrates that species differences in the effects of aging can lead to dramatic shifts in reproductive success. As these effects are realized solely in a competitive environment, both spatial patchiness and temporal niche partitioning may be important for promoting coexistence.
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- Farrah Bashey
- Department of Biology Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405
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- Department of Biology Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405
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- Department of Biology Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405
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Restif O, Graham AL. Within-host dynamics of infection: from ecological insights to evolutionary predictions. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2016; 370:rstb.2014.0304. [PMID: 26150670 PMCID: PMC4528502 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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- Olivier Restif
- Disease Dynamics Unit, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Tollenaere C, Susi H, Laine AL. Evolutionary and Epidemiological Implications of Multiple Infection in Plants. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 21:80-90. [PMID: 26651920 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Revised: 10/02/2015] [Accepted: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Recent methodological advances have uncovered tremendous microbial diversity cohabiting in the same host plant, and many of these microbes cause disease. In this review we highlight how the presence of other pathogen species, or other pathogen genotypes, within a plant can affect key components of host-pathogen interactions: (i) within-plant virulence and pathogen accumulation, through direct and host-mediated mechanisms; (ii) evolutionary trajectories of pathogen populations, through virulence evolution, generation of novel genetic combinations, and maintenance of genetic diversity; and (iii) disease dynamics, with multiple infection likely to render epidemics more devastating. The major future challenges are to couple a community ecology approach with a molecular investigation of the mechanisms operating under coinfection and to evaluate the evolution and effectiveness of resistance within a coinfection framework.
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- Charlotte Tollenaere
- Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes et Environnement (IPME), Institut de Recherches pour le Développement (IRD) - Cirad - Université de Montpellier, 34394 Montpellier, France; Laboratoire Mixte International Patho-Bios, IRD-INERA (Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles), BP171, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
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- Metapopulation Research Centre, Department of Biosciences, PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1), FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Metapopulation Research Centre, Department of Biosciences, PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1), FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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