Cardinium is a bacterial symbiont infecting many species of arthropods, and is associated with manipulation of host reproduction. Cardinium is the causal agent of asexual reproduction, or thelytoky, in the chalcidoid parasitoid wasp Encarsia hispida. Feeding antibiotics to the infected adult females results in uninfected male offspring. Here, we show that these males are diploid. Diploid males are extremely unusual in the large hymenopteran superfamily Chalcidoidea, and, to our knowledge, have never before been associated with symbiont infection in this group. These findings indicate that at least in E. hispida, diploidy restoration is a necessary condition but not sufficient to elicit female development. Cardinium is required to feminize diploid male embryos and thus must interact with elements of the host sex determination system. In addition, our data suggest that Cardinium is necessary for the fertility of E. hispida; antibiotic curing of Cardinium reduces offspring production of adult females

Feminization and the collapse of haplodiploidy in anasexual parasitoid wasp harboring the bacterialsymbiont Cardinium / M., Giorgini; M. M., Monti; Caprio, Emilio; R., Stouthamer; M. S., Hunter. - In: HEREDITY. - ISSN 0018-067X. - STAMPA. - 102:(2009), pp. 365-371.

Feminization and the collapse of haplodiploidy in anasexual parasitoid wasp harboring the bacterialsymbiont Cardinium

CAPRIO, EMILIO;
2009

Abstract

Cardinium is a bacterial symbiont infecting many species of arthropods, and is associated with manipulation of host reproduction. Cardinium is the causal agent of asexual reproduction, or thelytoky, in the chalcidoid parasitoid wasp Encarsia hispida. Feeding antibiotics to the infected adult females results in uninfected male offspring. Here, we show that these males are diploid. Diploid males are extremely unusual in the large hymenopteran superfamily Chalcidoidea, and, to our knowledge, have never before been associated with symbiont infection in this group. These findings indicate that at least in E. hispida, diploidy restoration is a necessary condition but not sufficient to elicit female development. Cardinium is required to feminize diploid male embryos and thus must interact with elements of the host sex determination system. In addition, our data suggest that Cardinium is necessary for the fertility of E. hispida; antibiotic curing of Cardinium reduces offspring production of adult females
2009
Feminization and the collapse of haplodiploidy in anasexual parasitoid wasp harboring the bacterialsymbiont Cardinium / M., Giorgini; M. M., Monti; Caprio, Emilio; R., Stouthamer; M. S., Hunter. - In: HEREDITY. - ISSN 0018-067X. - STAMPA. - 102:(2009), pp. 365-371.
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