Host specificity and cophylogeny in the 'animal-gut bacteria-phage' tripartite system

Autor: Ye Feng, Ruike Wei, Qiuli Chen, Tongyao Shang, Nihong Zhou, Zeyu Wang, Yanping Chen, Gongwen Chen, Guozhi Zhang, Kun Dong, Yihai Zhong, Hongxia Zhao, Fuliang Hu, Huoqing Zheng
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2055-5008
DOI: 10.1038/s41522-024-00557-x
Popis: Abstract Cophylogeny has been identified between gut bacteria and their animal host and is highly relevant to host health, but little research has extended to gut bacteriophages. Here we use bee model to investigate host specificity and cophylogeny in the “animal-gut bacteria-phage” tripartite system. Through metagenomic sequencing upon different bee species, the gut phageome revealed a more variable composition than the gut bacteriome. Nevertheless, the bacteriome and the phageome showed a significant association of their dissimilarity matrices, indicating a reciprocal interaction between the two kinds of communities. Most of the gut phages were host generalist at the viral cluster level but host specialist at the viral OTU level. While the dominant gut bacteria Gilliamella and Snodgrassella exhibited matched phylogeny with bee hosts, most of their phages showed a diminished level of cophylogeny. The evolutionary rates of the bee, the gut bacteria and the gut phages showed a remarkably increasing trend, including synonymous and non-synonymous substitution and gene content variation. For all of the three codiversified tripartite members, however, their genes under positive selection and genes involving gain/loss during evolution simultaneously enriched the functions into metabolism of nutrients, therefore highlighting the tripartite coevolution that results in an enhanced ecological fitness for the whole holobiont.
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