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Evolution, 56(10), 2002, pp. 1976–1981 WOLBACHIA INTERACTIONS THAT DETERMINE Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Box G-W, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 1E-mail: Adam࿞Fry@Brown.edu We have recently described a mutualistic symbiosis in which Wolbachia bacteria were shown to improve the fitness of some Drosophila melanogaster stocks. Wolbachia did not extend longevity in all Drosophila genotypes,even though 16s rDNA sequences indicated that our Drosophila stocks were infected with the same Wolbachia strain.
Here, we use reciprocal hybrid crosses between two Drosophila strains, one that lived longer with Wolbachia (Z53)and one that did not (Z2), to investigate the inheritance of the survival phenotype and its dependence on the hostgenotype, sex, and mating conditions. Wolbachia’s positive effects were more apparent in hybrid flies than in parentalflies, ruling out exclusive maternal inheritance or the dependence of the survival phenotype on Wolbachia straindifferences. The Wolbachia survival effects were more apparent in single-sex cages, where courtship and mating werenot permitted. In these cages, nearly all flies with Wolbachia lived longer than uninfected flies, even though strainZ2 showed no Wolbachia effect in mixed-sex mating cages. We used comparisons between single- and mixed-sexcages to estimate the cost of reproduction for both sexes. Our data suggest that Wolbachia infection may increase theinferred cost of reproduction, particularly in males. Wolbachia can even produce a positive survival effect almost aslarge as the negative survival effect associated with reproduction. We discuss the implications of our experiments forthe study of insect symbioses.
Cost of reproduction, hybrid, mortality, survival, symbiosis.
␣-proteobacteria Wolbachia and Drosophila is in transition from parasitic to thought to infect millions of insect species (Werren et al.
mutualistic (A. J. Fry, M. R. Palmer, and D. M. Rand, unpubl.
1995a; Jeyaprakash and Hoy 2000; Werren and Windsor ms.). To better understand these survival effects, we used 2000; Jiggins et al. 2001a). Their widespread distribution reciprocal hybrid crosses between two Drosophila strains, among insects makes them one of the most common infec- one that lived longer with Wolbachia (Z53) and one strain tious microorganisms. These bacteria inhabit the reproductive (Z2) that did not show a significant Wolbachia effect. This tissues of their hosts (Dobson et al. 1999), where they induce design allowed us to compare the survival effects of the Wol- a number of reproductive modifications intended to enhance bachia strains found in Z53 and Z2 as each hybrid had a their transmission through females. Their effects include the different Wolbachia strain. We also investigated Wolbachia’s induction of parthenogenesis (Stouthamer et al. 1993), fem- effects in both inbred (Z53 and Z2) and outbred (hybrid) inization of genetic males (Rousset et al. 1992), male-killing genotypes and we manipulated the mating conditions to un- (Jiggins et al. 1998; Hurst et al. 1999), and cytoplasmic in- derstand Wolbachia’s interaction with reproduction. This was compatibility (CI; Caspari and Watson 1959; Yen and Barr done because courtship and mating are known to affect Dro- 1971; Fine 1978; Hoffmann et al. 1986, 1990). Wolbachia sophila survival (e.g., Fowler and Partridge 1989; Partridge does not induce strong reproductive modifications in Dro- and Fowler 1990; Chapman et al. 1995) and could interact sophila melanogaster, and this has led to the suggestion that with Wolbachia’s effects on survival.
Wolbachia may benefit D. melanogaster fitness (Hoffmann etal. 1994, 1998; Solignac et al. 1994). Attempts to identify these benefits revealed that, in the field, Wolbachia couldimprove survival, but the positive survival effects depended on the population background and the location of the field The Z53 and Z2 D. melanogaster stocks were originally site (Olsen et al. 2001). In the laboratory, we found that collected in Zimbabwe, Africa. These laboratory strains were Wolbachia could significantly improve both survival and fe- started as isofemale lines, have been in laboratory culture for male fecundity, and these effects depended on the host ge- several hundred generations, and have been maintained at notype (A. J. Fry, M. R. Palmer, and D. M. Rand, unpubl.
moderate population size (100–200 pairs) in the laboratory ms.). DNA sequences from 16s rDNA (O’Neill et al. 1992) of D. M. Rand. They also carry the endosymbiotic bacterium and the ftsZ cell cycle gene (Holden et al. 1993; Werren et W. pipientis. Marc Tatar (Brown University) provided Ri- al. 1995b) suggested that our Wolbachia strains were iden- RedE, an uninfected control strain. We created paired Wol- tical. However, recent reports of recombination between dif- bachia-infected (W) and tetracycline-treated (T) experimen- ferent Wolbachia strains preclude exact strain identification tal lines with a standard protocol (Hoffmann et al. 1994; unless a large number of relevant loci are compared (Werren Poinsot and Mercot 1997). The uninfected fly lines are called et al. 1995b; Werren and Bartos 2001; Jiggins et al. 2001b).
(T) because they were treated with the antibiotic tetracycline The positive fitness effects we found could have important for two generations to remove Wolbachia (0.25 mg/ml tet- implications for the maintenance of Wolbachia infection in racycline in water added to Carolina dry food in a 1:1 mix).
D. melanogaster and may indicate that the symbiosis between The Wolbachia-infected (W) lines received identical food and ᭧ 2002 The Society for the Study of Evolution. All rights reserved.
TABLE 1. Proportional hazards analysis of females from fly strains TABLE 2. Risk ratios of Wolbachia-infected (W) to tetracycline-treat- Z53, Z2, and their hybrids. Mating environments were mixed- or sin- ed (T ) lines from two different mating environments, mixed- and sin- gle-sex. Wolbachia refers to Wolbachia-infected or tetracycline-treated gle-sex, left columns. Ratios greater than one indicate W lived longer flies. Likelihood-ratio (LR) chi-squared values and associated proba- than T and measure Wolbachia’s survival benefits. The two right col- umns are risk ratios of survival in single-sex to mixed-sex cages fordifferent infection states (T or W) and are a rough measure of the benefits to survival obtained by not reproducing. W and T or mixed-and single-sex cages were compared with log-rank tests and signifi- cance (P Ͻ 0.001) is indicated by an asterisk.
environment, except tetracycline was not added. The infec- tion status of all lines was confirmed with Wolbachia-specific 16S rRNA polymerase chain reaction primers (O’Neill et al.
1992). To insure that differences between T and W lines were not due to tetracycline treatment, we used two controls. First, we treated an uninfected fly strain, RiRedE, with tetracyclineto see if treatment affected survival. Second, we held ex-perimental flies for two generations on standard corn-meal together in one cage. Single-sex environments were con- laboratory food after treatment, but before the experimental structed with 100 virgin flies of only one sex per cage. There crosses, to minimize maternal effects of treatment.
were three replicate cages for each cross, sex, and mating Twenty-five pairs of parental flies from the T and W lines environment combination. Our treatment control, RiRedE, were placed into food bottles and held until approximately was reared in the mixed-sex environment only.
120–150 eggs were deposited. We controlled egg density In total, we monitored 78 demography cages and scored because W females from Z53 can lay more eggs than T fe- the survival of more than 10,000 flies. Statistical analyses males (A. J. Fry, M. R. Palmer, and D. M. Rand, unpubl.
were performed using the JMP statistical package (SAS In- ms.), which could influence larval density and in turn affect stitute 1995) and a semiparametric proportional hazards sta- Drosophila development time (Gonzalez-Candelas et al.
tistical model (Cox 1972). In our model, the dependent var- 1990), survival (Buck et al. 1993), and Wolbachia infection iable was time of death measured to the nearest 48 h, with levels (Hoffmann et al. 1998). Eggs were allowed to develop host genotype (four crosses), infection status (T or W), mat- and virgin adults collected and paired into one of four cross ing environment (mixed- or single-sex), and their interactions types: two hybrid crosses, Z53 male ϫ Z2 female and Z2 male ϫ Z53 female, and two parental crosses, Z53 ϫ Z53and Z2 ϫ Z2. To avoid confounding effects of cytoplasmic incompatibility on survival, all crosses were made with flies The survival of female flies from Z53, Z2, and their hybrids of the same infection status; that is, we did not cross T and depended on interactions between Wolbachia’s effects on sur- W flies. Twenty-five pairs of adults from each cross were vival, the host genotype, and whether courtship and mating placed into food bottles until 120–150 eggs were deposited.
occurred (Table 1). A proportional hazards analysis of male Virgin F1 adults from these crosses were collected over a survival was nearly identical except the three-way interaction 24-h period and used to initiate demography cages.
was not significant (likelihood-ratio ␹2 ϭ 5.82, df ϭ 3, P ϭ0.12). Due to the large number of pairwise comparisons be- tween T and W flies, we show only some of the more im- The demography cages were constructed from quart-serv- portant comparisons. The complete dataset is summarized in ing plastic containers with a screened lid; a side coupling the same dimension as a standard food vial; and a double-walled, The survival curves from the four crosses were signifi- rubber side entrance, made from bicycle inner tube. The de- cantly heterogeneous for females and males (Fig. 1), regard- mography cages were kept in a walk-in incubator on a 12L: less of Wolbachia infection status, in both mixed- and single- 12D photoperiod at 25ЊC and 40% relative humidity. Fresh sex cages. Hybrid flies survived longer than flies from either food vials we added to the cages every other day, when dead parental strain (Fig. 1). Wolbachia had a pronounced survival flies were removed with an aspirator, sexed, and counted.
effect in hybrid flies and flies reared in the single-sex cages Because courtship and mating can affect Drosophila survival (Table 2). We found that Wolbachia affected the survival of and could interact with Wolbachia’s effects on survival hybrid flies more than parental flies. Hybrids that carry Wol- (Fowler and Partridge 1989; Partridge and Fowler 1990; bachia survived significantly longer than T hybrids, even Chapman et al. 1995), we scored survival in two different though all hybrids had at least one parent (Z2) that did not mating environments. Mixed-sex environments were con- show a significant Wolbachia survival effect (Fig. 2). The structed with 100 virgin F1 males and 100 virgin females exception involves male hybrids with a Z2 father. Here, the Survival curves from females (A) and males (B) from parental crosses and hybrids. Data are from Wolbachia-infected (W)flies reared in mixed-sex mating cages. Symbols: Z53 ϫ Z53, filledtriangle; Z53 ϫ Z2, square; Z2 ϫ Z53, inverted triangle; Z2 ϫ Z2,diamond. (A) Females are significantly heterogeneous by log-rank(LR) test (␹2 ϭ 254, df ϭ 3, P Ͻ 10Ϫ3), (B) as are males (LR ␹2 ϭ 270, df ϭ 3, P Ͻ 10Ϫ3).
survival curves for T and W flies were not different in mixed-sex cages (Table 2). However, in single-sex cages, W flieslived longer than T flies, even if W and T flies were notdifferent in the mixed-sex cages as was the case for Z53males and both sexes of Z2 (Fig. 3). There were no significant Comparison of survival curves from Wolbachia-infected survival effects associated with tetracycline (T) treatment in (W, closed circles) and tetracycline-treated (T, open circles) flies our treatment control, RiRedE (P Ͼ 0.05 for both sexes by from four genotypes. Data are from females reared in mixed-sex log-rank test), indicating that tetracycline treatment was not cages. (A) LR ␹2 ϭ 52.28, df ϭ 1, P Ͻ 10Ϫ3; (B) LR ␹2 ϭ 0.05, directly responsible for the survival effects we observed.
P ϭ 0.89; (C) LR ␹2 ϭ 69.96, P Ͻ 10Ϫ3; (D) LR ␹2 ϭ 15.59, P Ͻ10Ϫ3.
Drosophila survival depended on strong interactions be- tween Wolbachia infection, host genotype, and the matingconditions experienced by both male and female flies (Table1). The parental strains Z53 and Z2 have been in laboratoryculture for several hundred generations, they are inbred andhave probably accumulated mutations affecting survival. Notsurprisingly, hybrid flies were longer-lived than their parentsin both mixed- (Fig. 1) and single-sex mating environments.
With one exception, the hybrids also showed a significantpositive Wolbachia effect, even though each hybrid had atleast one parent (Z2) that did not. The presence of a Wol-bachia effect in nearly all hybrids suggests that there maybe a relationship between inbreeding and the expression ofthe Wolbachia survival effect. Other Wolbachia phenotypiceffects such as the expression of cytoplasmic incompatibilityand the fidelity of maternal transmission are more pronouncedin laboratory stocks than in field populations (Hoffmann etal. 1990; Turelli and Hoffmann 1995). Drosophila fitness canbe adversely affected by inbreeding (e.g., Miller et al. 1993;Fry et al. 1998; Aspi 2000). As Wolbachia infection spreadsthroughout a host population, genetic variation at other cy-toplasmically inherited molecular markers can be reduced,such as mitochondrial DNA variation in D. simulans (e.g.,Ballard 2000). Thus, the interaction between Wolbachia andinbreeding could be important for predicting the equilibrium Effects of Wolbachia in mixed- and single-sex mating cag- es. Comparisons between Wolbachia-infected (W, closed circles) frequency and spread of Wolbachia infection in natural pop- and tetracycline-treated (T, open circles) flies. (A) LR ␹2 ϭ 3.61, df ϭ 1, P ϭ 0.05; (B) LR ␹2 ϭ 35.40, df ϭ 1, P Ͻ 10Ϫ3; (C) LR There is little evidence to suggest that the positive survival ␹2 ϭ 0.05, df ϭ 1, P ϭ 0.89; (D) LR ␹2 ϭ 48.83, df ϭ 1, P Ͻ effects associated with Wolbachia are uniparentally inherited.
TABLE 3. Mortality model analysis from Z53, Z2, and their hybrids TABLE 4. Mortality model analysis from Z53, Z2, and their hybrids from the mixed-sex mating cages. See Discussion for explanation of from the single-sex mating cages. See Discussion for explanation of models and symbols. Values give the proportional contribution of that models and symbols. Values give the proportional contribution of that parameter to the total difference in mortality between tetracycline- parameter to the total difference in mortality between tetracycline- treated (T ) and Wolbachia-infected (W) flies.
treated (T ) and Wolbachia-infected (W) flies.
However, more crosses will be needed to determine the exactinheritance pattern. We reported previously that 16S rRNAsequences from our Wolbachia strains were identical, whichimplicated the host genome in the differential expression of that Wolbachia can decrease sperm production in D. simulans.
these Wolbachia survival effects (A. J. Fry, M. R. Palmer, It is unclear whether a similar mechanism increases the cost and D. M. Rand, unpubl. ms.). However, we note that recent of reproduction in our W males. Our data reject the notion reports of recombination between some Wolbachia strains that Wolbachia’s positive survival effects are achieved by (Jiggins et al. 2001b; Werren and Bartos 2001) make it nec- decreasing the cost of reproduction. This is consistent with essary to obtain sequences from a large number of Wolbachia our earlier result that found Wolbachia could improve sur- loci to determine if the strains are identical by descent. With vival without decreasing female fecundity. In fact, Wolbachia complete Wolbachia genomes currently being sequenced improved both survival and fecundity of female flies (A. J.
(e.g., Slatko et al. 1999), it should soon be possible to de- Fry, M. R. Palmer, and D. M. Rand, unpubl. ms.). The final termine the extent to which different Wolbachia strains and point to make about Table 2 is that by comparing Wolbachia’s host genomes interact to produce the various Wolbachia phe- effects on survival with the inferred cost of reproduction, we find that Wolbachia’s positive effects can be substantial. For The Wolbachia survival effects in our experiment showed example, the positive effect of Wolbachia (25%) is close to a strong dependence on the mating cage. W flies reared in half the inferred cost of reproduction (58%) in Z53 females single-sex cages lived longer than T flies, even if T and W (Table 2). We suggest that Wolbachia effects of this mag- flies were the same in the mixed-sex cages. The benefits of nitude are probably important determinants of life-history Wolbachia in the two environments can be compared using evolution in chronically infected host populations. Whether risk ratios (Table 2). For example, neither females nor males these positive and negative survival effects might be offset- from Z2 show a significant Wolbachia effect in the mixed- ting in natural populations is uncertain and requires addi- sex environment (1.01 and 1.06 risk ratios, respectively). In the single-sex environment, however, there is a 21% and 19% To understand how Wolbachia affects survival, we used benefit to Wolbachia infection. Aside from Z2 and Z53 males, maximum-likelihood analyses (Pletcher 1999) to compare es- however, the effect of Wolbachia on survival is about the timated mortality models from W and T flies (Tables 3, 4).
same in the mixed- and single-sex cages. For example, in In most cases, similar models described T and W mortality Z53 females, Wolbachia’s positive effect is about 25% under curves from the same genotype and sex. The inferred models were either two-parameter Gompertz models, which describe The right two columns of Table 2 compare fly survival in a simple exponential increase in mortality rate with age, or mixed- and single-sex cages. If we consider these risk ratios Gompertz-Makeham models (Vaupel and Yashin 1985) that as a very rough index of the cost of reproduction, we can include an additional parameter (C) to describe age-indepen- compare Wolbachia’s effects on fly survival with the effects dent mortality. The proportional contribution of each param- of courtship, mating, and egg laying on fly survival. Inspec- eter to the total difference in mortality was determined using tion of these ratios indicates several things. First, nearly all the method of Pletcher et al. (2000). The results are shown of the flies experience a significant decrease in survival when in Table 3 for mixed-sex mating cages and Table 4 for single- courtship and mating occur. This has been well documented sex cages. Our results indicate that Wolbachia infection can in Drosophila and presumably represents a physiological cost contribute to age-independent mortality. For example, 22.6% to reproduction (e.g., Fowler and Partridge 1989; Partridge of the total difference in mortality between T and W flies for and Fowler 1990; Chapman et al. 1995). Second, there is a Z53 females is due to an age-independent (C) mortality con- trend suggesting that Wolbachia infections can contribute to tribution. More commonly, though, Wolbachia affected both the cost of reproduction. This cost appears much greater for the rate of aging (slope, ␤), and the initial mortality rate the parental Z53 and Z2 males than for any female. Again, (intercept, ␣). Our data suggest that Wolbachia can affect the this effect could be related to the level of inbreeding in pa- mortality schedules of flies in ways that are difficult to pre- rental males because hybrid males show no cost of repro- dict. Clearly, Wolbachia but must be controlled in experi- duction, infected or not (Table 2). Snook et al. (2000) showed mental investigations of arthropod fitness.
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