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Hammoud C, Mulero S, Van Bocxlaer B, Boissier J, Verschuren D, Albrecht C, Huyse T. Simultaneous genotyping of snails and infecting trematode parasites using high-throughput amplicon sequencing. Mol Ecol Resour 2021; 22:567-586. [PMID: 34435445 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Several methodological issues currently hamper the study of entire trematode communities within populations of their intermediate snail hosts. Here we develop a new workflow using high-throughput amplicon sequencing to simultaneously genotype snail hosts and their infecting trematode parasites. We designed primers to amplify four snail and five trematode markers in a single multiplex PCR. While also applicable to other genera, we focused on medically and economically important snail genera within the superorder Hygrophila and targeted a broad taxonomic range of parasites within the class Trematoda. We tested the workflow using 417 Biomphalaria glabrata specimens experimentally infected with Schistosoma rodhaini, two strains of Schistosoma mansoni and combinations thereof. We evaluated the reliability of infection diagnostics, the robustness of the workflow, its specificity related to host and parasite identification, and the sensitivity to detect co-infections, immature infections and changes of parasite biomass during the infection process. Finally, we investigated its applicability in wild-caught snails of other genera naturally infected with a diverse range of trematodes. After stringent quality control the workflow allows the identification of snails to species level, and of trematodes to taxonomic levels ranging from family to strain. It is sensitive to detect immature infections and changes in parasite biomass described in previous experimental studies. Co-infections were successfully identified, opening the possibility to examine parasite-parasite interactions such as interspecific competition. Together, these results demonstrate that our workflow provides a powerful tool to analyse the processes shaping trematode communities within natural snail populations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cyril Hammoud
- Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.,Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
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- IHPE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, IFREMER, Perpignan, France
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- Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.,Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, CNRS, Lille, France
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- IHPE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, IFREMER, Perpignan, France
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- Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Systematics & Biodiversity Lab, Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.,Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Lucentini L, Plazzi F, Sfriso AA, Pizzirani C, Sfriso A, Chiesa S. Additional taxonomic coverage of the doubly uniparental inheritance in bivalves: Evidence of sex‐linked heteroplasmy in the razor clam
Solen marginatus
Pulteney, 1799, but not in the lagoon cockle
Cerastoderma glaucum
(Bruguière, 1789). J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Livia Lucentini
- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnologies University of Perugia Perugia Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceuticals Sciences University of Ferrara Ferrara Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnologies University of Perugia Perugia Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics Ca' Foscari University of Venice Venice Italy
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- Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems Ca' Foscari University of Venice Venice Italy
- ISPRA Institute for Environmental Protection and Research Rome Italy
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Passamonti M, Plazzi F. Doubly Uniparental Inheritance and beyond: The contribution of the Manila clamRuditapes philippinarum. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Marco Passamonti
- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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Gusman A, Lecomte S, Stewart DT, Passamonti M, Breton S. Pursuing the quest for better understanding the taxonomic distribution of the system of doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA. PeerJ 2016; 4:e2760. [PMID: 27994972 PMCID: PMC5157197 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2016] [Accepted: 11/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
There is only one exception to strict maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the animal kingdom: a system named doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI), which is found in several bivalve species. Why and how such a radically different system of mitochondrial transmission evolved in bivalve remains obscure. Obtaining a more complete taxonomic distribution of DUI in the Bivalvia may help to better understand its origin and function. In this study we provide evidence for the presence of sex-linked heteroplasmy (thus the possible presence of DUI) in two bivalve species, i.e., the nuculanoid Yoldia hyperborea(Gould, 1841)and the veneroid Scrobicularia plana(Da Costa,1778), increasing the number of families in which DUI has been found by two. An update on the taxonomic distribution of DUI in the Bivalvia is also presented.
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- Arthur Gusman
- Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal , Montréal , Québec , Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France
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- Department of Biology, Acadia University , Wolfville , Nova Scotia , Canada
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- Department of Biological Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal , Montréal , Québec , Canada
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