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Discovery of Symbiont-Host
Horizontal Genome Transfer:
A Beetle Carrying Two
Bacterial and One
Chromosomal
Wolbachia
Endosymbionts
Takema Fukatsu, Natsuko Kondo, Nobuyuki Ijichi,
and Naruo Nikoh
CONTENTS
Endosymbiotic Bacteria of the Genus
Wolbachia
.........................................................................306
The Adzuki Bean Beetle,
Callosobruchus chinensis
....................................................................306
Detection of
....................................................................................307
SuperInfection with Three Distinct Strains of
Wolbachia
from
C. chinensis
Wolbachia
in
C. chinensis
...................................307
Prevailing Triple Infection in Natural Populations of
C. chinensis
..............................................308
What Are the Three
Strains Doing in the Same Host Insect? ....................................309
Different Levels of CI Caused by the Three
Wolbachia
Wolbachia
Strains...................................................309
QuantiÝcation of
Wolbachia
Density in Host Insect.....................................................................310
Population Dynamics of
Wolbachia
through Host Development .................................................310
Wolbachia
Density in Tissues of
C
.
chinensis
Adults...................................................................311
Differential Tissue Tropism of the Three
Wolbachia
Strains in the Same Host Insect ...............312
Peculiar
Composition in Nurse Tissue and Oocyte:
Implication for Vertical-Transmission Process ..............................................................................313
Factors Responsible for Stable Maintenance of
Wolbachia
Infection in Host Populations.........313
Strategies of wBruCon and wBruOri to Persist in Host Populations...........................................314
Peculiar Properties of wBruAus ....................................................................................................314
Antibiotic Resistance of wBruAus ................................................................................................314
Sex-Linked Inheritance of wBruAus .............................................................................................314
Sex-Dependent Density Difference of wBruAus ..........................................................................315
Detection of
Wolbachia
Wolbachia
Genes in Cured Strain of
C. chinensis
...................................................316
Structure of
Wolbachia
Genome Fragments Obtained from Cured Strain of
C. chinensis
.........316
Non-LTR Retrotransposon-Like Sequence in the
Wolbachia
Genome Fragment ........................316
Comparison with the
................................................317
The Nature of wBruAus as ÑChromosomal WolbachiaÒ ..............................................................318
Universal Occurrence of Horizontal Gene Transfers between Prokaryotes .................................318
Wolbachia
Genome from
D. melanogaster
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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