Temporal variation and lack of host specificity among bacterial endosymbionts of Osedax bone worms (Polychaeta: Siboglinidae)

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Robert C Vrijenhoek¹  Rahel M Salathé² 

[1] Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, 95039, USA;Present Address: Department of Biology and Center of Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, Millennium Science Complex, University Park, PA, 16801, USA

关键词: Endosymbionts;    Oceanospirillales;    Ribotyping;    16S rRNA;    Osedax;   

Others  :  1140240
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2148-12-189

 received in 2012-03-09, accepted in 2012-09-19,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Osedax worms use a proliferative root system to extract nutrients from the bones of sunken vertebrate carcasses. The roots contain bacterial endosymbionts that contribute to the nutrition of these mouthless and gutless worms. The worms acquire these essential endosymbionts locally from the environment in which their larvae settle. Here we report on the temporal dynamics of endosymbiont diversity hosted by nine Osedax species sampled during a three-year investigation of an experimental whale fall at 1820-m depth in the Monterey Bay, California. The host species were identified by their unique mitochondrial COI haplotypes. The endosymbionts were identified by ribotyping with PCR primers specifically designed to target Oceanospirillales.

Results

Thirty-two endosymbiont ribotypes associated with these worms clustered into two distinct bacterial ribospecies that together comprise a monophyletic group, mostly restricted to deep waters (>1000 m). Statistical analyses confirmed significant changes in the relative abundances of host species and the two dominant endosymbiont ribospecies during the three-year sampling period. Bone type (whale vs. cow) also had a significant effect on host species, but not on the two dominant symbiont ribospecies. No statistically significant association existed between the host species and endosymbiont ribospecies.

Conclusions

Standard PCR and direct sequencing proved to be an efficient method for ribotyping the numerically dominant endosymbiont strains infecting a large sample of host individuals; however, this method did not adequately represent the frequency of mixed infections, which appears to be the rule rather than an exception for Osedax individuals. Through cloning and the use of experimental dilution series, we determined that minority ribotypes constituting less than 30% of a mixture would not likely be detected, leading to underestimates of the frequency of multiple infections in host individuals.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Salathé and Vrijenhoek; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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