Wolbachia infection and mitochondrial diversity in the canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis)

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 227-233

  Belanger, Diana H ^a,b   Perkins, Susan L ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Canine heartworm; Endosymbiont; Genetic diversity; Selective sweep

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE SWEEP; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; NORTH AMERICA; WOLBACHIA;

DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 78650608947     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2010.533765     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Avise JC. 2000. Phylogeography: the history and formation of species. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2. Baldo L, Hotopp JCD, Jolley KA, Bordenstein SR, Biber SA, Choudhury RR, Hayashi C, Maiden MCJ, Tettelin H, Werren JH. 2006. Multilocus sequence typing system for the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis. Appl Environ Microbiol 72: 7098-7110.
3. Bandi C, Anderson TJC, Genchi C, Blaxter ML. 1998. Phylogeny of Wolbachia in filarial nematodes. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 265:2407-2413.
4. Bandi C, Trees AJ, Brattig NW. 2001. Wolbachia in filarial nematodes: Evolutionary aspects and implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of filarial diseases. Vet Parasitol 98: 215-238.
5. Bazzocchi C, Ceciliani F, McCall JW, Ricci I, Genchi C, Bandi C. 2000. Antigenic roles of the endosymbionts of filarial nematodes: IgG response against Wolbachia surface protein in cats infected with Dirofilaria immitis. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 267:2511-2516.
6. Brattig NW, Bazzocchi C, Kirschning CJ, Reiling N, Buttner DW, Ceciliani F, et al. 2004. The major surface protein of Wolbachia endosymbionts in filarial nematodes elicits immune responses through TLR2 and TLR4. J Immunol 173:437-445.
7. Casiraghi M, Anderson TJC, Bandi C, Bazzocchi C, Genchi C. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of filarial nematodes: Comparison with the phylogeny of Wolbachia endosymbionts. Parasitology 122:93-103.
8. Casiraghi M, Bain O, Guerrero R, Martin C, Pocacqua V, Gardner SL, et al. 2004. Mapping the presence of Wolbachia pipientis on the phylogeny of filarial nematodes: Evidence for symbiont loss during evolution. Int J Parasitol 34: 191-203.
9. Chirgwin SR, Porthouse KH, Nowling JM, Klei TR. 2002. The filarial endosymbiont Wolbachia spp. is absent from Setaria equina. J Parasitol 88:1248-1250.
10. Clement M, Posada D, Crandall KA. 2000. TCS: A computer program to estimate gene genealogies. Mol Ecol 9: 1657-1660.
11. Dean MD. 2006. AWolbachia-associated fitness benefit depends on the genetic backgroun in Drosophila simulans. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 273:1415-1420.
12. Fay JC, Wu C. 2000. Hitchhiking under positive Darwinian selection. Genetics 155:1405-1413.
13. Fenn K, Blaxter M. 2006.Wolbachia genomes: Revealing the biology of parasitism and mutualism. Trends Parasitol 22:60-65.
14. Fenn K, Conlon C, Jones M, Quail MA, Holroyd NE, Parkhill J, Blaxter M. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of Wolbachia of nematodes and arthropods. PLoS Pathog 2:887-899.
15. Foster J, GanatraM, Kamal I,Ware J, Makarova K, Ivanova N, et al. 2005. The Wolbachia genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont evolution with a human pathogenic nematode. PLoS Biol 3: 599-614.
16. Fu Y, Li W. 1993. Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations. Genetics 133:693-709.
17. Galtier N, Nabholz B, Glemin S, Hurst GDD. 2009. Mitochondrial DNAas a marker for molecular diversity:A reappraisal. Mol Ecol 18:4541-4550.
18. Hilgenboecker K, Hammerstein P, Schlattmann P, Telschow A, Werren JH. 2008. How many species are infected with Wolbachia?-A statistical analysis of current data. FEMS Microbiol Lett 281:215-220.
19. Hise AG, Gillette-Ferguson I, Pearlman E. 2004. The role of endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria in filarial disease. Cell Microbiol 6:97-104.
20. Hu M, Gasser RB. 2006. Mitochondrial genomes of parasitic nematodes - progress and perspectives. Trends Parasitol 22: 78-84.
21. Hu M, Gasser RB, Abs El-Osta YG, Chilton NB. 2003. Structure and organization of the mitochondrial genome of the canine heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis. Parasitology 127:37-51.
22. Hu M, Rabelo EM, Schindler AR, Roberts H, Gasser RB. 2008. Extensive and complex sequence diversity in mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 within Necator americanus from Colombia revealed by SSCP-coupled sequencing. Mol Cell Probes 22:234-237.
23. Hudson RR, Slatkin M, Maddison WP. 1992. Estimation of levels of gene flow from DNA sequence data. Genetics 132:583-589.
24. Hurst GDD, Jiggins FM. 2005. Problems with mitochondrial DNA as a marker in population, phylogeographic, and phylogenetic studies: The effects of inherited symbionts. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 272:1525-1534.
25. Jiggins FM. 2003. Male-killing Wolbachia and mitochondrial DNA: Selective sweeps, hybrid introgression, and parasite population dynamics. Genetics 164:5-12.
26. Kozek WJ. 2005. What is new in the Wolbachia/Dirofilaria interaction? Vet Parasitol 133:127-132.
27. Librado P, Rozas J. 2009. DnaSP v5: A software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data. Bioinformatics 25: 1451-1452.
28. McGarry HF, Pfarr K, Egerton G, Hoerauf A, Akue J, Enyong P, et al. 2003. Evidence against Wolbachia symbiosis in Loa loa. Filarial J 2:9-15.
29. McGarry HF, Egerton GL, Taylor MJ. 2004. Population dynamics of Wolbachia endosymbionts in Brugia malayi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 135:57-67.
30. Negri I, Pellecchia M, Mazzoglio PJ, Patetta A, Alma A. 2006. FeminizingWolbachia in Zyginidia pullula (Insecta, Hemiptera), a leafhopper with an XX/XO sex determination system. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 273:2409-2416.
31. Negri I, Franchini A, Mandrioli M, Mazzoglio PJ, Alma A. 2008. The gonads of Zyginidia pullula males feminized by Wolbachia pipientis. Bull Insectology 61:213-214.
32. Nei M. 1987. Molecular evolutionary genetics. New York: Columbia University Press.
33. Nice CC, Gompert Z, Forister ML, Fordyce JA. 2009. An unseen foe in arthropod conservation efforts: The case of Wolbachia infections in the Karner blue butterfly. Biol Conserv 142: 3137-3146.
34. Nielsen R. 2001. Statistical tests of selective neutrality in the age of genomics. Heredity 86:641-647.
35. Plenge-Bonig A, Krome M, Buttner DW. 1995. Light and electron microscopy studies on Onchocerca jakutensis and O. flexuosa of red deer show different host-parasite interactions. Parasitol Res 81:66-73.
36. Raychoudhury R, Baldo L, Oliveira DCSG, Werren JH. 2009. Modes of acquisition of Wolbachia: Horizontal transfer, hybrid introgression, and codivergence in the Nasonia species complex. Evolution 63:165-183.
37. Raychoudhury R, Grillenberger BK, Gadau J, Bijlsma R, van de Zande L, Werren JH, Beukeboom LW. 2010. Phylogeography of Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera) indicates a mitochondrial-Wolbachia sweep in North America. Heredity 104:318-326.
38. Schulenburg JHG, Hurst GDD, Huigens TME, van Meer MMM, Jiggins FM, Majerus MEN. 2000. Molecular evolution and phyogenetic utility ofWolbachia ftsZ and wsp gene sequences with special reference to the origin of male-killing. Mol Biol Evol 17: 584-600.
39. Shoemaker DD, Dyer KA, Ahrens M, McAbee K, Jaenike J. 2004. Decreased diversity but increases substitution rate in host mtDNA as a consequence of Wolbachia endosymbiont infection. Genetics 168:2049-2058.
40. Simon F, Morchon R, Rodriguez-Barbero A, Lopez-Belmonte J, Grandi G, Genchi C. 2008. Dirofilaria immitis and Wolbachiaderived antigens: Its effect on endothelial mammal cells. Vet Parasitol 158:223-231.
41. Sironi M, Bandi C, Sacchi L, Di Sacco B, Damiani G, Genchi C. 1995. Molecular evidence for a close relative of the arthropod endosymbiont Wolbachia in a filarial worm. Mol Biochem Parasitol 74:223-227.
42. Stamatakis A. 2006. RAxML-VI-HPC: Maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses with thousands of taxa and mixed models. Bioinformatics 22:2688-2690.
43. Stamatakis A, Hoover P, Rougemont J. 2008. A rapid bootstrap algorithm for the RAxML web servers. Syst Biol 57: 758-771.
44. Tajima F. 1989. The effect of change in population size on DNA polymorphism. Genetics 123:597-601.
45. Tram U, Sullivan W. 2002. Role of delayed nuclear envelope breakdown and mitosis in Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility. Science 296:1124-1126.
46. Turelli M, Hoffmann AA. 1991. Rapid spread of an inherited incompatibility factor in California Drosophila. Nature 353: 440-442.
47. Watterson GA. 1975. On the number of segregating sites in genetic models without recombination. Theor Popul Biol 7:256-276.
48. Weeks AR, Breeuwer JA. 2001. Wolbachia-induced parthenogenesis in a genus of phytophagus mites. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 268:2245-2251.
49. Werren JH, Zhang W, Guo LR. 1995. Evolution and phylogeny of Wolbachia: Reproductive parasites of arthropods. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 261:55-63.
50. Werren JH, Baldo L, Clark ME. 2008. Wolbachia: Master manipulators of invertebrate biology. Nat Rev Microbiol 6: 741-751.