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Copyright  2004 by the Genetics Society of AmericaDOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.026716 Virulence, Multiple Infections and Regulation of Symbiotic Population in the
Wolbachia-Asobara tabida Symbiosis
Laurence Mouton,*,1 Franck Dedeine,*,† He´le`ne Henri,* Michel Boule´treau,* Ne´rina Profizi‡
and Fabrice Vavre*
*Laboratoire de Biome´trie et Biologie Evolutive (UMR-CNRS 5558), Universite´ Claude Bernard—Lyon1, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, †Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 and ‡CHI de Toulon-La Seyne sur Mer, 83507 La Seyne sur Mer, France The density and regulation of microbial populations are important factors in the success of symbiotic associations. High bacterial density may improve transmission to the next generation, but excessive replica-tion could turn out to be costly to the host and result in higher virulence. Moreover, differences invirulence may also depend on the diversity of symbionts. Using the maternally transmitted symbiontWolbachia, we investigated how bacterial density and diversity are regulated and influence virulence inhost insects subject to multiple infection. The model we used was the wasp Asobara tabida that naturallyharbors three different Wolbachia strains, of which two are facultative and induce cytoplasmic incompatibil-ity, whereas the third is necessary for the host to achieve oogenesis. Using insect lines infected withdifferent subsets of Wolbachia strains, we show that: (i) some traits of A. tabida are negatively affected byWolbachia; (ii) the physiological cost increases with the number of co-infecting strains, which also corre-sponds to an increase in the total bacterial density; and (iii) the densities of the two facultative Wolbachiastrains are independent of one another, whereas the obligatory strain is less abundant when it is alone,suggesting that there is some positive interaction with the other strains.
THE genetic diversity of parasites co-infecting indi- reasonsforthis.First,theverticaltransmissionofsymbi- vidual hosts is often thought to be an important onts tends to limit multiple infection, because the oo- factor in the evolution of their virulence (Ewald 1994; cytes of the host are colonized by only a few individuals, Frank 1996a; Galvani 2003). Theoretical studies have and the resulting bottleneck greatly reduces the genetic shown that lower relatedness among the parasites within diversity of the symbiotic population (Mira and Moran the host could lead to increased virulence (Frank 1994, 2002). Second, many vertically transmitted symbionts 1996a; Van Baalen and Sabelis 1995). The classical have evolved a mutualistic relationship with their hosts, idea, referred to as the “tragedy of the commons,” is and the benefit they confer considerably outweighs their that competition for a limiting resource puts faster ex- cost; this makes the cost difficult to assess or even detect ploiters at an advantage over more prudent ones (Har- (Thompson 1988; Bronstein 1994). However, these din 1968). However, recent articles have pointed out biological models could provide interesting data, be- that in commonly used models, selection among para- cause the closely linked evolutionary fates of host and sites affects only the host exploitation rate, but that symbionts should have led to the selection of mecha- different outcomes could be reached when other types nisms that reduce virulence to a minimum (Lipsitch of competition are also considered (Chao et al. 2000; Read and Taylor 2001; Brown et al. 2002). For exam- A good model for studying this question is the mater- ple, interference among parasites could lead to under- nally transmitted symbiotic bacterium Wolbachia, which exploitation of hosts and hence to reduced virulence is able to induce cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), lead- (Chao et al. 2000). The relationship beween virulence ing to postzygotic reproductive isolation between any and multiple infection is thus still under debate and male infected by a Wolbachia strain and a female lacking needs further empirical documentation.
this strain (for review see Hoffmann and Turelli 1997).
So far these questions have received little study in This puts females with multiple infection at an advan- vertically transmitted symbionts. There are two main tage and promotes the spread and maintenance of mul-tiple infection (Frank 1998), which has proved rathercommon. Second, infected individuals benefit only in- 1Corresponding author: Laboratoire de Biome´trie et Biologie Evolutive directly from infection, as a result of the disadvantage (UMR-CNRS 5558), Universite´ Claude Bernard—Lyon1 43, Bd. du suffered by uninfected females or females infected by 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
E-mail: mouton@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr only a subset of Wolbachia strains. Thus, the cost of Genetics 168: 181–189 (September 2004)
and so most of their oocytes are already mature at emergence.
infection (that we define here as the virulence of Wol- To estimate the oocyte load, newly emerged females were kept bachia) and the advantage to the host are clearly distin- for 5 days with water and honey to allow oocyte maturation guishable and can be measured separately in distinct to be completed. The ovaries were dissected in physiological saline, transferred into neutral red solution for 5 min, and In this study, we used the association between Wol- then gently squashed between the slide and cover glass todisperse the eggs. The stained eggs were then counted under bachia and the parasitic wasp Asobara tabida, whose lar- the microscope with the help of a video system.
vae develop as solitary endoparasites of Drosophila lar- Tibia length: Left hind tibia was measured on the adult males vae. A. tabida individuals are co-infected by three and females of each line using a micrometer.
different Wolbachia strains, wAtab1, wAtab2, and wAtab3 Dry weight: Emerging parasitoids of both sexes were sampled (Vavre et al. 1999). While both wAtab1 and wAtab2 are in each line and dried at 65Њ for 48 hr before weighing.
Adult ability to survive starvation: Two-day-old males and fe- facultative parasites and induce CI (F. Dedeine, per- males were put in vials with moist cotton, but without food.
sonal communication), wAtab3 is necessary for oogen- Mortality was checked every day at the same time (Ϯ1 hr) esis to occur in this species: A. tabida females lacking until all the individuals had died. Six vials, each containing wAtab3 do not produce oocytes (Dedeine et al. 2001).
10 parasitoids, were studied for each sex in each line.
Using antibiotherapy, we created A. tabida lines that Locomotor activity pattern: Individual locomotor activity was monitored using a video-tracking and image-analysis system harbored different combinations of Wolbachia strains, to provide automatic continuous measurements of the insects but shared the same nuclear background.
over several days (Allemand et al. 1994). Individual insects This study addresses two main questions: (i) Is there were isolated in experimental circular glass arenas with honey any relationship between the diversity and virulence as food. The locomotor activity of each individual was mea- of Wolbachia and/or between Wolbachia density and sured every 3 min using binary data (1 if the wasp had movedduring a 2-sec video recording and 0 if it had not), and the virulence? and (ii) How are Wolbachia diversity and hourly activity was calculated as the percentage of active re- density regulated? The findings are discussed in the cordings obtained over 3 days with a 12/12 hr LD cycle. To context of the evolution of virulence in multiple infec- evaluate the average daily pattern of activity, two independent tions, by considering the peculiar selective pressures parameters were estimated for each individual: the rate of locomotor activity, calculated as the average of active re-cordings over a 24-hr period, and the profile of the rhythm,which establishes the pattern of the total daily activity in termsof the hourly percentages. The rate of locomotor activity mea- sures the locomotor performance of wasps, while the activityprofile determines how this activity is organized throughout Insect strains and rearing: A. tabida (Hymenoptera: Braco-
the day. Data are reported in terms of the Zeitgeber time (Zt, nidae) is a solitary endoparasitoid wasp of several Drosophila time within the environmental cycle); the light is turned off species. In the laboratory, parasitoids are reared on a Wol- bachia-free strain of Drosophila melanogaster originating from Real-time quantitative PCR: DNA extraction: Insects or parts
Ste Foy-les-Lyon (France). Rearing and experiments were car- of insects were individually squashed in 150 ␮l 5% (w/vol) ried out without larval or adult competition at 20Њ under 12/12 light/dark (LD) cycle and 70% relative humidity.
Chelex solution (Bio-Rad, Richmond, CA) and proteinase K A. tabida individuals are naturally infected with three Wol- (Eurobio, Les Ulis, France; final concentration 0.5 ␮g/␮l) bachia strains, named wAtab1, wAtab2, and wAtab3 (Vavre et and kept at 56Њ for 6 hr. After 15 min at 95Њ, the samples were al. 1999). The triply infected line, named Pi(123), is an inbred centrifuged at 16,000 ϫ g for 4 min.
line originating from Pierrefeu (Pi), France, which has been Primers: Quantification of Wolbachia bacteria was achieved maintained by regular sib-mating for four generations. De- by amplifying the Wolbachia surface protein gene wsp. To rived A. tabida lines with different infection statuses were detect all the Wolbachia strains present we used the general obtained using moderate antibiotic treatments (F. Dedeine, forward primers 81F: 5Ј-TGG TCC AAT AAG TGA TGA AGA personal communication). Since wAtab3 is obligatory for re- AAC-3Ј (Braig et al. 1998). Specific PCR detection of each production in this species, only one singly infected and two Wolbachia strain was conducted using three other forward doubly infected lines could be obtained and have proved stable primers: 165ЈF (5Ј-TGG TAT TAC AAA TGT AGC-3Ј) for wA- in time: the singly infected line Pi(3) harboring wAtab3 and tab1, 172F (5Ј-ACC TAT AAG AAA GAC AAG-3Ј) for wAtab2 the doubly infected lines Pi(13) and Pi(23) harboring wAtab3 (Zhou et al. 1998), and Aso3 (5Ј-AAA GGG GAC TGA TGA and wAtab1 and wAtab3 and wAtab2, respectively.
TGT-3Ј) for wAtab3. All these forward primers were used with Components of the fitness cost of infection: Several fitness
the same reverse primer 691R: 5Ј-AAA AAT TAA ACG CTA traits have been measured in individuals of each line of A. CTC CA-3Ј (Zhou et al. 1998).
Quantitative PCR: Real-time quantitative PCR was performed Offspring production and sex ratio: After mating with 3- to using the LightCycler system (Roche). The 20-␮l reaction mix- 4-day-old males with the same infection status as themselves ture consisted of 10% (vol/vol) LightCycler DNA master SYBR (checked by individual visual inspection), 1- to 2-day-old fe- Green I (Roche Diagnostics), 3 mm MgCl2, 500 nm each males were each provided with 150 Drosophila larvae (24 hr primer, and 2 ␮l of template DNA. The amplification consisted old) and allowed to parasitize hosts for 48 hr. The infested of 40 cycles of 15 sec at 95Њ, followed by 14 sec at 53Њ and 28 host larvae were then kept and allowed to develop. At emer- sec at 72Њ for 81F/691R and 11 sec at 52Њ and 22 sec at 72Њ gence, the adult Drosophila and the wasps of both sexes were for 165ЈF/691R, 172F/691R, and Aso3/691R.
counted in each vial. We performed three series (i.e., blocks) Standard curves were drawn on clones of the three Wol- to test these traits (at least seven replicates per line for each bachia strains. Amplification with 81F/691R primers was per- formed on a triply infected female. PCR products were puri- Egg production: A. tabida females are mainly proovogenic, fied (GIBCO BRL, Gaithersburg, MD) and cloned into the Virulence, Multiple Infections and Regulation of Symbiotic Population Pi(123),
Figure 1.—Starvation survival curves of female and male Figure 2.—Mean curves of the locomotor activity rhythms wasps with differing Wolbachia infection statuses. (ᮀ) Pi(123), of A. tabida lines Pi(123), Pi(13), Pi(23), and Pi(3). Males and (᭡) Pi(13), (᭜) Pi(23), (᭺) Pi(3).
females were measured for 3 days under LD 12/12 (Zeitgebertime) with light off at Zt0 and light on at Zt12. The black-and-white rectangles at the top of the figure represent night pDrive cloning vector (QIAGEN, Valencia, CA). Specific PCR and day, respectively. (ᮀ) Pi(123), (᭡) Pi(13), (᭜) Pi(23), assays were used to identify the Wolbachia strain present in the clone. The DNA concentration of each sample was mea-sured by OD absorbance at 260 nm. Standard curves wereplotted using five dilutions of this vector (from 102 to 108 and Pi(123) were the lightest. Thus, the greater the copies) containing one copy of a specific wsp sequence, which diversity of Wolbachia lineages harbored by the insects, is a single-copy gene (Braig et al. 1998). The number of the less they weighed. More diversity in Wolbachia also Wolbachia cells was calculated as described in Noda et al.
(2001). These values must be considered as semiquantitative led to a shorter life span of the host (Table 1; Figure estimates of Wolbachia cell numbers.
1). Life span of doubly infected wasps was intermediate Wolbachia abundance was measured individually on 5-day- for both sexes, but the difference from simply infected old males and females, either in whole bodies or separately wasps was not significant in the males. The rate of loco- in head plus thorax and abdomen of the same individual.
motor activity also varied with the infection status of Density was obtained by correcting the number of Wolbachiaby the mean fresh weight of insects of the line. The ratio of individuals (Table 1). As for dry weight and life span, Wolbachia cells in the abdomen to the sum of Wolbachia in singly infected wasps had greater locomotor activity than head plus thorax and abdomen was calculated individually.
triply infected ones, but in this case the difference wasnot significant for the females. In contrast, the profileof the rhythm was the same regardless of infection status (ANOVA, d.f. ϭ 3189, F ϭ 1.763, P ϭ 0.16, Figure 2).
Infection cost: Among the seven fitness components
Total Wolbachia density: Previous findings have
studied here, three do not vary according to the infec- shown that infection cost increases with bacterial diver- tion status: productivity, fecundity, and tibia length. For sity. To find out whether this is linked to density varia- sex ratio, a marginally significant effect was detected, tions, we measured the number of Wolbachia cells in with a potentially higher proportion of females in the male and female Pi(3), Pi(13), Pi(23), and Pi(123) (Ta- triply infected line. However, this trait is highly variable ble 2). In all these lines, the numbers of Wolbachia and and no such effect was detected in the third block. Clear their relative densities (number of cells per milligram conclusions were obtained only for dry weight, adult of fresh weight) were higher in females than in males survival, and rate of locomotor activity (Table 1).
(Mann-Whitney test, P Ͻ 0.001).
Pi(3) individuals of both sexes were the heaviest, Despite the fact that the cell numbers obtained by Pi(13) and Pi(23) had similar and intermediate weights, real-time quantitative PCR were rather low and may have Virulence, Multiple Infections and Regulation of Symbiotic Population Wolbachia density in A. tabida species
Mean values ϮSE and statistical analysis of the total number of Wolbachia cells per wasp (eight replicates per sex and line) are shown. The analyses were carried out using the Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test. Meansmarked with the same letter are not significantly different (Mann-Whitney tests, P ϭ 0.05).
been underestimated, in both sexes the total Wolbachia there was no significant difference between males of density depended on the combination of the Wolbachia the two doubly and the one triply infected lines.
strains co-infecting the same individual host (Kruskal- Overall, these findings demonstrate that increasing Wallis test, P Ͻ 0.005). Singly infected individuals of the mixture of Wolbachia strains results in a higher the Pi(3) strain had the lowest density, which was less physiological cost to the host and also leads to higher than one-quarter of that in Pi(123). In females, the Wolbachia density. This means that the cost of infection density in the two doubly infected lines was intermediate is also positively correlated with bacterial density, as between those of the singly and triply infected lines, but it was lower in Pi(13) than in Pi(23). In contrast, Strain-specific Wolbachia density: We have shown that
Figure 3.—Wolbachia density and dry weight.
The Wolbachia density (histogram) and dryweight (curve) of Pi(123), Pi(13), Pi(23), andPi(3) individuals are presented. Values corre-spond to the average of eight individuals for den-sity and of 30 individuals for dry weight. Bars showthe standard error.
Figure 4.—Specific densities of wAtab1, wAtab2, and wAtab3. Specific densities of wAtab1, wAtab2, and wAtab3 in females and males of various infection statuses are presented. Values correspond to the average of eight individuals per sex and line. Barsshow the standard error. P-values of Kruskal-Wallis tests are indicated. For wAtab3, means marked with the same letters are notsignificantly different (Mann-Whitney tests, P ϭ 0.05).
total bacterial density increases with bacterial diversity, Considering the relative abundance of Wolbachia but we still do not know how each Wolbachia strain strains in triply infected individuals, wAtab1 was found responds to the presence of other Wolbachia strains.
to be the least represented in both sexes (16% in females We therefore measured the specific density of each Wol- and 22% in males), whereas the most abundant strains bachia strain co-infecting the same individual in all A. were wAtab2 in females (61%) and wAtab3 in males (near 41%). Despite the different abundances of wAtab1 First, the sums of the specific densities are equal to and wAtab2 in the host, they induced similar infection the estimations of total densities in all lines (Wilcoxon rank test, P ϭ 0.11), thus indicating the reliability of Wolbachia distribution in the host body: The localiza-
the method and ruling out any concern about signifi- tion of Wolbachia may have an influence on the infec- tion cost (McGraw et al. 2002). We then studied the In both sexes, we found that the specific densities of preferential localization of these bacteria in A. tabida wAtab1 and wAtab2 were the same in the Pi(123) and species of each line by measuring the total number of Pi(13) lines and the Pi(123) and Pi(23) lines (Mann- Wolbachia cells in head plus thorax and in abdomen Whitney test, P Ͼ 0.05), respectively, and are thus inde- of the same host body. Comparison of the percentage pendent of the infection status of the individuals. The of Wolbachia in abdomen compared to the entire body density of wAtab3 was lower in Pi(3) than in multiply in the four lines demonstrates that Wolbachia are pref- infected lines and, whereas the differences were not erentially localized in abdomen in males as well as in significant in the males (Kruskal-Wallis test, P ϭ 0.11), females whatever the infection status (Table 3). How- they were significant in the females (P ϭ 0.02), with the ever, the percentage of Wolbachia in abdomen is higher Pi(13) and Pi(123) lines harboring more wAtab3 than in females than in males (Student’s t-test, P Ͻ 0.0001).
Pi(3) lines (Mann-Whitney test, P Յ 0.02).
This repartition does not differ between lines (ANOVA, Virulence, Multiple Infections and Regulation of Symbiotic Population though variations in density are due to the differingdiversity of the Wolbachia strains infecting individu- Percentage of Wolbachia cells in abdomen compared to the
entire body in A. tabida females and males
als, higher bacterial densities also correlate with anincrease in the cost of infection. A relationship be- tween density and virulence has already been docu- mented by McGraw et al. (2002), who demonstratedthat the fitness cost associated with the popcorn strain was reduced in a new transfected Drosophila host harboring a lower Wolbachia density. Therefore, with results of McGraw et al. (2002), the data pre- sented here strongly support the existence of a rela- tionship between bacterial density and infection cost, which has rarely been demonstrated hitherto, but is generally accepted since more symbionts can be expected to require more energy (Thompson 1988).
However other factors, such as the particular traits Mean percentage ϮSE and statistical analysis of total Wol- of each strain, may affect the impact of bacteria on bachia cells in abdomen compared to the sum of densities inhead (H), thorax (T), and abdomen (A) in five males and their host. For example, the same cost is induced by five females of each A. tabida line are shown. One-way ANOVA wAtab1 and wAtab2, in spite of the lower density of analyses were carried out after arcsine square root transforma- wAtab1. Thus, all differences in the cost of infection cannot be attributed to bacterial density alone.
iii. The densities of the two facultative strains wAtab1 P Ͼ 0.05 for both sexes), even though the percentage and wAtab2 are specifically regulated and do not of Wolbachia in abdomen of males for the Pi(3) line depend on the presence of other strains. The situa- tion is less clear for the obligatory bacterium wAtab3,suggesting that there may be some positive interac-tion with other strains. Such specific bacterial regu- lation seems to be rather common in multiple infec- Three main conclusions can be drawn from our find- tions by Wolbachia, as suggested by studies in D. simulans, Ephestia kuehniella, and Leptopilina hetero-toma (Rousset et al. 1999; Ikeda et al. 2003; Mouton i. Despite the vertical transmission of Wolbachia and the high selective pressures that tend to reduce infec-tion costs, some traits of A. tabida are still negatively The puzzling question that now arises is how the infec- affected by Wolbachia. However, the resulting costs tion cost for A. tabida has persisted despite selective are low, may have little influence on the fitness of pressures toward reduced virulence that act on both the adults in the wild, and probably do not affect the bacteria and the insects. Is multiple infection responsi- maintenance of multiple infection. This finding is ble for this persistence? The strain-specific regulation consistent with numerous studies on the cost of Wol- of bacterial density suggests that strains do not compete bachia where a high variability among species and with one another for limited resources within the host, traits exists (Hoffmann et al. 1990, 1994, 1998; Gior- and this should prevent the increased virulence that is dano et al. 1995; Girin and Boule´treau 1995; Tur- usually expected from multiple infection (Frank 1996a).
elli and Hoffmann 1995; Wade and Chang 1995; The maintenance of infection cost in A. tabida probably Bourtzis et al. 1996; Clancy and Hoffmann 1997; expresses specific constraints, such as the classical trade- Min and Benzer 1997; Poinsot and Merc¸ot 1997; off between virulence and bacterial transmission (for Hoerauf et al. 1999; Vavre et al. 1999; Fleury et al.
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