Interaction specificity between leaf-cutting ants and vertically transmitted Pseudonocardia bacteria

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• 作者：Sandra B Andersen (1) (2)
  Sze Huei Yek (1) (3)
  David R Nash (1)
  Jacobus J Boomsma (1)
  
  1. Centre for Social Evolution ; Department of Biology ; University of Copenhagen ; Universitetsparken 15 ; 2100 ; Copenhagen ; Denmark
  2. Current address ; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability ; Technical University of Denmark ; H酶rsholm ; Denmark
  3. Current address ; Department of Genetics ; Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) ; University of Pretoria ; Pretoria ; South Africa
  
• 关键词：Attine ant mutualism ; Cross ; fostering ; Prophylactic defences ; Host ; symbiont coevolution
• 刊名：BMC Evolutionary Biology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1,223 KB
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• 刊物主题：Evolutionary Biology; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Entomology; Genetics and Population Dynamics; Life Sciences, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2148

文摘

Background The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions. In addition to cultivating fungus gardens, these ants have domesticated actinomycete bacteria to defend gardens against the fungal parasite Escovopsis and possibly other pathogens. Panamanian Acromyrmex echinatior leaf-cutting ants primarily associate with actinomycetes of the genus Pseudonocardia. Colonies are inoculated with one of two vertically transmitted phylotypes (Ps1 or Ps2), and maintain the same phylotype over their lifetime. We performed a cross-fostering experiment to test whether co-adaptations between ants and bacterial phylotypes have evolved, and how this affects bacterial growth and ant prophylactic behavior after infection with Escovopsis. Results We show that Pseudonocardia readily colonized ants irrespective of their colony of origin, but that the Ps2 phylotype, which was previously shown to be better able to maintain its monocultural integrity after workers became foragers than Ps1, reached a higher final cover when grown on its native host than on alternative hosts. The frequencies of major grooming and weeding behaviors co-varied with symbiont/host combinations, showing that ant behavior also was affected when cuticular actinomycete phylotypes were swapped. Conclusion These results show that the interactions between leaf-cutting ants and Pseudonocardia bear signatures of mutual co-adaptation within a single ant population.