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- Title
The entomopathogenic bacterial endosymbionts Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus: convergent lifestyles from divergent genomes.
- Authors
Chaston, John M; Suen, Garret; Tucker, Sarah L; Andersen, Aaron W; Bhasin, Archna; Bode, Edna; Bode, Helge B; Brachmann, Alexander O; Cowles, Charles E; Cowles, Kimberly N; Darby, Creg; de Léon, Limaris; Drace, Kevin; Du, Zijin; Givaudan, Alain; Herbert Tran, Erin E; Jewell, Kelsea A; Knack, Jennifer J; Krasomil-Osterfeld, Karina C; Kukor, Ryan; Lanois, Anne; Latreille, Phil; Leimgruber, Nancy K; Lipke, Carolyn M; Liu, Renyi; Lu, Xiaojun; Martens, Eric C; Marri, Pradeep R; Médigue, Claudine; Menard, Megan L; Miller, Nancy M; Morales-Soto, Nydia; Norton, Stacie; Ogier, Jean-Claude; Orchard, Samantha S; Park, Dongjin; Park, Youngjin; Qurollo, Barbara A; Sugar, Darby Renneckar; Richards, Gregory R; Rouy, Zoé; Slominski, Brad; Slominski, Kathryn; Snyder, Holly; Tjaden, Brian C; van der Hoeven, Ransome; Welch, Roy D; Wheeler, Cathy; Xiang, Bosong; Barbazuk, Brad; Gaudriault, Sophie; Goodner, Brad; Slater, Steven C; Forst, Steven; Goldman, Barry S; Goodrich-Blair, Heidi
- Abstract
Members of the genus Xenorhabdus are entomopathogenic bacteria that associate with nematodes. The nematode-bacteria pair infects and kills insects, with both partners contributing to insect pathogenesis and the bacteria providing nutrition to the nematode from available insect-derived nutrients. The nematode provides the bacteria with protection from predators, access to nutrients, and a mechanism of dispersal. Members of the bacterial genus Photorhabdus also associate with nematodes to kill insects, and both genera of bacteria provide similar services to their different nematode hosts through unique physiological and metabolic mechanisms. We posited that these differences would be reflected in their respective genomes. To test this, we sequenced to completion the genomes of Xenorhabdus nematophila ATCC 19061 and Xenorhabdus bovienii SS-2004. As expected, both Xenorhabdus genomes encode many anti-insecticidal compounds, commensurate with their entomopathogenic lifestyle. Despite the similarities in lifestyle between Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus bacteria, a comparative analysis of the Xenorhabdus, Photorhabdus luminescens, and P. asymbiotica genomes suggests genomic divergence. These findings indicate that evolutionary changes shaped by symbiotic interactions can follow different routes to achieve similar end points.
- Publication
PloS one, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 11, pe27909
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0027909