Mountain Pine Beetles Colonizing Historical and Naïve Host Trees Are Associated with a Bacterial Community Highly Enriched in Genes Contributing to Terpene Metabolism
Autor: | Kenneth F. Raffa, Brian H. Aukema, Sandye M. Adams, Nadir Erbilgin, Aaron S. Adams, Cameron R. Currie, Garret Suen, Frank O. Aylward |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Pinus contorta
Bark beetle media_common.quotation_subject Molecular Sequence Data Insect Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Alberta Dendroctonus Gram-Negative Bacteria Invertebrate Microbiology Animals Symbiosis media_common Herbivore Base Sequence British Columbia Ecology biology Terpenes Host (biology) fungi Computational Biology Sequence Analysis DNA Pinus biology.organism_classification Coleoptera Metagenomics Metagenome Mountain pine beetle Food Science Biotechnology |
Zdroj: | Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79:3468-3475 |
ISSN: | 1098-5336 0099-2240 |
Popis: | The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae , is a subcortical herbivore native to western North America that can kill healthy conifers by overcoming host tree defenses, which consist largely of high terpene concentrations. The mechanisms by which these beetles contend with toxic compounds are not well understood. Here, we explore a component of the hypothesis that beetle-associated bacterial symbionts contribute to the ability of D. ponderosae to overcome tree defenses by assisting with terpene detoxification. Such symbionts may facilitate host tree transitions during range expansions currently being driven by climate change. For example, this insect has recently breached the historical geophysical barrier of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, providing access to näive tree hosts and unprecedented connectivity to eastern forests. We use culture-independent techniques to describe the bacterial community associated with D. ponderosae beetles and their galleries from their historical host, Pinus contorta , and their more recent host, hybrid P. contorta-Pinus banksiana . We show that these communities are enriched with genes involved in terpene degradation compared with other plant biomass-processing microbial communities. These pine beetle microbial communities are dominated by members of the genera Pseudomonas , Rahnella , Serratia , and Burkholderia , and the majority of genes involved in terpene degradation belong to these genera. Our work provides the first metagenome of bacterial communities associated with a bark beetle and is consistent with a potential microbial contribution to detoxification of tree defenses needed to survive the subcortical environment. |
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