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text: 'When animals become sick, infected cells and an armada of activated immune
cells attempt to eliminate the pathogen from the body. Once infectious particles
have breached the body''s physical barriers of the skin or gut lining, an initially
local response quickly escalates into a systemic response, attracting mobile immune
cells to the site of infection. These cells complement the initial, unspecific
defense with a more specialized, targeted response. This can also provide long-term
immune memory and protection against future infection. The cell-autonomous defenses
of the infected cells are thus aided by the actions of recruited immune cells.
These specialized cells are the most mobile cells in the body, constantly patrolling
through the otherwise static tissue to detect incoming pathogens. Such constant
immune surveillance means infections are noticed immediately and can be rapidly
cleared from the body. Some immune cells also remove infected cells that have
succumbed to infection. All this prevents pathogen replication and spread to healthy
tissues. Although this may involve the sacrifice of some somatic tissue, this
is typically replaced quickly. Particular care is, however, given to the reproductive
organs, which should always remain disease free (immune privilege). '
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ama: Cremer S. Social immunity in insects. Current Biology. 2019;29(11):R458-R463.
doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.035
apa: Cremer, S. (2019). Social immunity in insects. Current Biology. Elsevier.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.035
chicago: Cremer, Sylvia. “Social Immunity in Insects.” Current Biology. Elsevier,
2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.035.
ieee: S. Cremer, “Social immunity in insects,” Current Biology, vol. 29,
no. 11. Elsevier, pp. R458–R463, 2019.
ista: Cremer S. 2019. Social immunity in insects. Current Biology. 29(11), R458–R463.
mla: Cremer, Sylvia. “Social Immunity in Insects.” Current Biology, vol.
29, no. 11, Elsevier, 2019, pp. R458–63, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.035.
short: S. Cremer, Current Biology 29 (2019) R458–R463.
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text: 'Social insects (i.e., ants, termites and the social bees and wasps) protect
their colonies from disease using a combination of individual immunity and collectively
performed defenses, termed social immunity. The first line of social immune defense
is sanitary care, which is performed by colony members to protect their pathogen-exposed
nestmates from developing an infection. If sanitary care fails and an infection
becomes established, a second line of social immune defense is deployed to stop
disease transmission within the colony and to protect the valuable queens, which
together with the males are the reproductive individuals of the colony. Insect
colonies are separated into these reproductive individuals and the sterile worker
force, forming a superorganismal reproductive unit reminiscent of the differentiated
germline and soma in a multicellular organism. Ultimately, the social immune response
preserves the germline of the superorganism insect colony and increases overall
fitness of the colony in case of disease. '
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ama: 'Cremer S, Kutzer M. Social immunity. In: Choe J, ed. Encyclopedia of Animal
Behavior. 2nd ed. Elsevier; 2019:747-755. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.90721-0'
apa: Cremer, S., & Kutzer, M. (2019). Social immunity. In J. Choe (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of Animal Behavior (2nd ed., pp. 747–755). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.90721-0
chicago: Cremer, Sylvia, and Megan Kutzer. “Social Immunity.” In Encyclopedia
of Animal Behavior, edited by Jae Choe, 2nd ed., 747–55. Elsevier, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.90721-0.
ieee: S. Cremer and M. Kutzer, “Social immunity,” in Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior,
2nd ed., J. Choe, Ed. Elsevier, 2019, pp. 747–755.
ista: 'Cremer S, Kutzer M. 2019.Social immunity. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior.
, 747–755.'
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short: S. Cremer, M. Kutzer, in:, J. Choe (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior,
2nd ed., Elsevier, 2019, pp. 747–755.
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text: "Social insect colonies tend to have numerous members which function together
like a single organism in such harmony that the term ``super-organism'' is often
used. In this analogy the reproductive caste is analogous to the primordial germ\r\ncells
of a metazoan, while the sterile worker caste corresponds to somatic cells. The
worker castes, like tissues, are\r\nin charge of all functions of a living being,
besides reproduction. The establishment of new super-organismal units\r\n(i.e.
new colonies) is accomplished by the co-dependent castes. The term oftentimes
goes beyond a metaphor. We invoke it when we speak about the metabolic rate, thermoregulation,
nutrient regulation and gas exchange of a social insect colony. Furthermore, we
assert that the super-organism has an immune system, and benefits from ``social
immunity''.\r\n\r\nSocial immunity was first summoned by evolutionary biologists
to resolve the apparent discrepancy between the expected high frequency of disease
outbreak amongst numerous, closely related tightly-interacting hosts, living in
stable and microbially-rich environments, against the exceptionally scarce epidemic
accounts in natural populations. Social\r\nimmunity comprises a multi-layer assembly
of behaviours which have evolved to effectively keep the pathogenic enemies of
a colony at bay. The field of social immunity has drawn interest, as it becomes
increasingly urgent to stop\r\nthe collapse of pollinator species and curb the
growth of invasive pests. In the past decade, several mechanisms of\r\nsocial
immune responses have been dissected, but many more questions remain open.\r\n\r\nI
present my work in two experimental chapters. In the first, I use invasive garden
ants (*Lasius neglectus*) to study how pathogen load and its distribution among
nestmates affect the grooming response of the group. Any given group of ants will
carry out the same total grooming work, but will direct their grooming effort
towards individuals\r\ncarrying a relatively higher spore load. Contrary to expectation,
the highest risk of transmission does not stem from grooming highly contaminated
ants, but instead, we suggest that the grooming response likely minimizes spore
loss to the environment, reducing contamination from inadvertent pickup from the
substrate.\r\n\r\nThe second is a comparative developmental approach. I follow
black garden ant queens (*Lasius niger*) and their colonies from mating flight,
through hibernation for a year. Colonies which grow fast from the start, have
a lower chance of survival through hibernation, and those which survive grow at
a lower pace later. This is true for colonies of naive\r\nand challenged queens.
Early pathogen exposure of the queens changes colony dynamics in an unexpected
way: colonies from exposed queens are more likely to grow slowly and recover in
numbers only after they survive hibernation.\r\n\r\nIn addition to the two experimental
chapters, this thesis includes a co-authored published review on organisational\r\nimmunity,
where we enlist the experimental evidence and theoretical framework on which this
hypothesis is built,\r\nidentify the caveats and underline how the field is ripe
to overcome them. In a final chapter, I describe my part in\r\ntwo collaborative
efforts, one to develop an image-based tracker, and the second to develop a classifier
for ant\r\nbehaviour."
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text: Being cared for when sick is a benefit of sociality that can reduce disease
and improve survival of group members. However, individuals providing care risk
contracting infectious diseases themselves. If they contract a low pathogen dose,
they may develop low-level infections that do not cause disease but still affect
host immunity by either decreasing or increasing the host’s vulnerability to subsequent
infections. Caring for contagious individuals can thus significantly alter the
future disease susceptibility of caregivers. Using ants and their fungal pathogens
as a model system, we tested if the altered disease susceptibility of experienced
caregivers, in turn, affects their expression of sanitary care behavior. We found
that low-level infections contracted during sanitary care had protective or neutral
effects on secondary exposure to the same (homologous) pathogen but consistently
caused high mortality on superinfection with a different (heterologous) pathogen.
In response to this risk, the ants selectively adjusted the expression of their
sanitary care. Specifically, the ants performed less grooming and more antimicrobial
disinfection when caring for nestmates contaminated with heterologous pathogens
compared with homologous ones. By modulating the components of sanitary care in
this way the ants acquired less infectious particles of the heterologous pathogens,
resulting in reduced superinfection. The performance of risk-adjusted sanitary
care reveals the remarkable capacity of ants to react to changes in their disease
susceptibility, according to their own infection history and to flexibly adjust
collective care to individual risk.
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ama: Konrad M, Pull C, Metzler S, et al. Ants avoid superinfections by performing
risk-adjusted sanitary care. PNAS. 2018;115(11):2782-2787. doi:10.1073/pnas.1713501115
apa: Konrad, M., Pull, C., Metzler, S., Seif, K., Naderlinger, E., Grasse, A. V.,
& Cremer, S. (2018). Ants avoid superinfections by performing risk-adjusted
sanitary care. PNAS. National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713501115
chicago: Konrad, Matthias, Christopher Pull, Sina Metzler, Katharina Seif, Elisabeth
Naderlinger, Anna V Grasse, and Sylvia Cremer. “Ants Avoid Superinfections by
Performing Risk-Adjusted Sanitary Care.” PNAS. National Academy of Sciences,
2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713501115.
ieee: M. Konrad et al., “Ants avoid superinfections by performing risk-adjusted
sanitary care,” PNAS, vol. 115, no. 11. National Academy of Sciences, pp.
2782–2787, 2018.
ista: Konrad M, Pull C, Metzler S, Seif K, Naderlinger E, Grasse AV, Cremer S. 2018.
Ants avoid superinfections by performing risk-adjusted sanitary care. PNAS. 115(11),
2782–2787.
mla: Konrad, Matthias, et al. “Ants Avoid Superinfections by Performing Risk-Adjusted
Sanitary Care.” PNAS, vol. 115, no. 11, National Academy of Sciences, 2018,
pp. 2782–87, doi:10.1073/pnas.1713501115.
short: M. Konrad, C. Pull, S. Metzler, K. Seif, E. Naderlinger, A.V. Grasse, S.
Cremer, PNAS 115 (2018) 2782–2787.
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text: Social insects protect their colonies from infectious disease through collective
defences that result in social immunity. In ants, workers first try to prevent
infection of colony members. Here, we show that if this fails and a pathogen establishes
an infection, ants employ an efficient multicomponent behaviour − "destructive
disinfection" − to prevent further spread of disease through the colony.
Ants specifically target infected pupae during the pathogen's non-contagious incubation
period, relying on chemical 'sickness cues' emitted by pupae. They then remove
the pupal cocoon, perforate its cuticle and administer antimicrobial poison, which
enters the body and prevents pathogen replication from the inside out. Like the
immune system of a body that specifically targets and eliminates infected cells,
this social immunity measure sacrifices infected brood to stop the pathogen completing
its lifecycle, thus protecting the rest of the colony. Hence, the same principles
of disease defence apply at different levels of biological organisation.
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brood prevents systemic disease spread in ant colonies. eLife. 2018;7.
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disease spread in ant colonies. ELife. eLife Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32073
chicago: Pull, Christopher, Line V Ugelvig, Florian Wiesenhofer, Anna V Grasse,
Simon Tragust, Thomas Schmitt, Mark Brown, and Sylvia Cremer. “Destructive Disinfection
of Infected Brood Prevents Systemic Disease Spread in Ant Colonies.” ELife.
eLife Sciences Publications, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32073.
ieee: C. Pull et al., “Destructive disinfection of infected brood prevents
systemic disease spread in ant colonies,” eLife, vol. 7. eLife Sciences
Publications, 2018.
ista: Pull C, Ugelvig LV, Wiesenhofer F, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Schmitt T, Brown
M, Cremer S. 2018. Destructive disinfection of infected brood prevents systemic
disease spread in ant colonies. eLife. 7, e32073.
mla: Pull, Christopher, et al. “Destructive Disinfection of Infected Brood Prevents
Systemic Disease Spread in Ant Colonies.” ELife, vol. 7, e32073, eLife
Sciences Publications, 2018, doi:10.7554/eLife.32073.
short: C. Pull, L.V. Ugelvig, F. Wiesenhofer, A.V. Grasse, S. Tragust, T. Schmitt,
M. Brown, S. Cremer, ELife 7 (2018).
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text: Insects are exposed to a variety of potential pathogens in their environment,
many of which can severely impact fitness and health. Consequently, hosts have
evolved resistance and tolerance strategies to suppress or cope with infections.
Hosts utilizing resistance improve fitness by clearing or reducing pathogen loads,
and hosts utilizing tolerance reduce harmful fitness effects per pathogen load.
To understand variation in, and selective pressures on, resistance and tolerance,
we asked to what degree they are shaped by host genetic background, whether plasticity
in these responses depends upon dietary environment, and whether there are interactions
between these two factors. Females from ten wild-type Drosophila melanogaster
genotypes were kept on high- or low-protein (yeast) diets and infected with one
of two opportunistic bacterial pathogens, Lactococcus lactis or Pseudomonas entomophila.
We measured host resistance as the inverse of bacterial load in the early infection
phase. The relationship (slope) between fly fecundity and individual-level bacteria
load provided our fecundity tolerance measure. Genotype and dietary yeast determined
host fecundity and strongly affected survival after infection with pathogenic
P. entomophila. There was considerable genetic variation in host resistance, a
commonly found phenomenon resulting from for example varying resistance costs
or frequency-dependent selection. Despite this variation and the reproductive
cost of higher P. entomophila loads, fecundity tolerance did not vary across genotypes.
The absence of genetic variation in tolerance may suggest that at this early infection
stage, fecundity tolerance is fixed or that any evolved tolerance mechanisms are
not expressed under these infection conditions.
acknowledgement: 'We would like to thank Susann Wicke for performing the genome-wide
SNP/indel analyses, as well as Veronica Alves, Kevin Ferro, Momir Futo, Barbara
Hasert, Dafne Maximo, Nora Schulz, Marlene Sroka, and Barth Wieczorek for technical
help. We thank Brian Lazzaro for the L. lactis strain and Bruno Lemaitre for the
Pseudomonas entomophila strain. We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for
their helpful comments. We are grateful to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
priority programme 1399 ‘Host parasite coevolution’ for funding this project (AR
872/1-1). '
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Megan
full_name: Kutzer, Megan
id: 29D0B332-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Kutzer
orcid: 0000-0002-8696-6978
- first_name: Joachim
full_name: Kurtz, Joachim
last_name: Kurtz
- first_name: Sophie
full_name: Armitage, Sophie
last_name: Armitage
citation:
ama: Kutzer M, Kurtz J, Armitage S. Genotype and diet affect resistance, survival,
and fecundity but not fecundity tolerance. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
2018;31(1):159-171. doi:10.1111/jeb.13211
apa: Kutzer, M., Kurtz, J., & Armitage, S. (2018). Genotype and diet affect
resistance, survival, and fecundity but not fecundity tolerance. Journal of
Evolutionary Biology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13211
chicago: Kutzer, Megan, Joachim Kurtz, and Sophie Armitage. “Genotype and Diet Affect
Resistance, Survival, and Fecundity but Not Fecundity Tolerance.” Journal of
Evolutionary Biology. Wiley, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13211.
ieee: M. Kutzer, J. Kurtz, and S. Armitage, “Genotype and diet affect resistance,
survival, and fecundity but not fecundity tolerance,” Journal of Evolutionary
Biology, vol. 31, no. 1. Wiley, pp. 159–171, 2018.
ista: Kutzer M, Kurtz J, Armitage S. 2018. Genotype and diet affect resistance,
survival, and fecundity but not fecundity tolerance. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
31(1), 159–171.
mla: Kutzer, Megan, et al. “Genotype and Diet Affect Resistance, Survival, and Fecundity
but Not Fecundity Tolerance.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 31,
no. 1, Wiley, 2018, pp. 159–71, doi:10.1111/jeb.13211.
short: M. Kutzer, J. Kurtz, S. Armitage, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31 (2018)
159–171.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:31Z
date_published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-11T14:06:04Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1111/jeb.13211
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oa: 1
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page: 159 - 171
pmid: 1
publication: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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eissn:
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publication_status: published
publisher: Wiley
publist_id: '7187'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Genotype and diet affect resistance, survival, and fecundity but not fecundity
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year: '2018'
...
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Sperm cells are the most morphologically diverse cells across animal taxa.
Within species, sperm and ejaculate traits have been suggested to vary with the
male's competitive environment, e.g., level of sperm competition, female mating
status and quality, and also with male age, body mass, physiological condition,
and resource availability. Most previous studies have based their conclusions
on the analysis of only one or a few ejaculates per male without investigating
differences among the ejaculates of the same individual. This masks potential
ejaculate-specific traits. Here, we provide data on the length, quantity, and
viability of sperm ejaculated by wingless males of the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior.
Males of this ant species are relatively long-lived and can mate with large numbers
of female sexuals throughout their lives. We analyzed all ejaculates across the
individuals' lifespan and manipulated the availability of mating partners. Our
study shows that both the number and size of sperm cells transferred during copulations
differ among individuals and also among ejaculates of the same male. Sperm quality
does not decrease with male age, but the variation in sperm number between ejaculates
indicates that males need considerable time to replenish their sperm supplies.
Producing many ejaculates in a short time appears to be traded-off against male
longevity rather than sperm quality.
acknowledgement: "Research with C. obscurior from Brazil was permitted by Instituto
Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis, IBAMA (permit no.
20324-1). We thank the German Science Foundation ( DFG ) for funding ( Schr1135/2-1
), T. Suckert for help with sperm length measurements and A.K. Huylmans for advice
concerning graphs. One referee made helpful comments on the manuscript.\r\n"
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Sina
full_name: Metzler, Sina
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last_name: Metzler
orcid: 0000-0002-9547-2494
- first_name: Alexandra
full_name: Schrempf, Alexandra
last_name: Schrempf
- first_name: Jürgen
full_name: Heinze, Jürgen
last_name: Heinze
citation:
ama: Metzler S, Schrempf A, Heinze J. Individual- and ejaculate-specific sperm traits
in ant males. Journal of Insect Physiology. 2018;107:284-290. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.12.003
apa: Metzler, S., Schrempf, A., & Heinze, J. (2018). Individual- and ejaculate-specific
sperm traits in ant males. Journal of Insect Physiology. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.12.003
chicago: Metzler, Sina, Alexandra Schrempf, and Jürgen Heinze. “Individual- and
Ejaculate-Specific Sperm Traits in Ant Males.” Journal of Insect Physiology.
Elsevier, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.12.003.
ieee: S. Metzler, A. Schrempf, and J. Heinze, “Individual- and ejaculate-specific
sperm traits in ant males,” Journal of Insect Physiology, vol. 107. Elsevier,
pp. 284–290, 2018.
ista: Metzler S, Schrempf A, Heinze J. 2018. Individual- and ejaculate-specific
sperm traits in ant males. Journal of Insect Physiology. 107, 284–290.
mla: Metzler, Sina, et al. “Individual- and Ejaculate-Specific Sperm Traits in Ant
Males.” Journal of Insect Physiology, vol. 107, Elsevier, 2018, pp. 284–90,
doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.12.003.
short: S. Metzler, A. Schrempf, J. Heinze, Journal of Insect Physiology 107 (2018)
284–290.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:25Z
date_published: 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-12T07:43:26Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.12.003
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intvolume: ' 107'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
month: '05'
oa_version: None
page: 284-290
publication: Journal of Insect Physiology
publication_status: published
publisher: Elsevier
publist_id: '7397'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Individual- and ejaculate-specific sperm traits in ant males
type: journal_article
user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1
volume: 107
year: '2018'
...
---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Ants are emerging model systems to study cellular signaling because distinct
castes possess different physiologic phenotypes within the same colony. Here we
studied the functionality of inotocin signaling, an insect ortholog of mammalian
oxytocin (OT), which was recently discovered in ants. In Lasius ants, we determined
that specialization within the colony, seasonal factors, and physiologic conditions
down-regulated the expression of the OT-like signaling system. Given this natural
variation, we interrogated its function using RNAi knockdowns. Next-generation
RNA sequencing of OT-like precursor knock-down ants highlighted its role in the
regulation of genes involved in metabolism. Knock-down ants exhibited higher walking
activity and increased self-grooming in the brood chamber. We propose that OT-like
signaling in ants is important for regulating metabolic processes and locomotion.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Zita
full_name: Liutkeviciute, Zita
last_name: Liutkeviciute
- first_name: Esther
full_name: Gil Mansilla, Esther
last_name: Gil Mansilla
- first_name: Thomas
full_name: Eder, Thomas
last_name: Eder
- first_name: Barbara E
full_name: Casillas Perez, Barbara E
id: 351ED2AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Casillas Perez
- first_name: Maria
full_name: Giulia Di Giglio, Maria
last_name: Giulia Di Giglio
- first_name: Edin
full_name: Muratspahić, Edin
last_name: Muratspahić
- first_name: Florian
full_name: Grebien, Florian
last_name: Grebien
- first_name: Thomas
full_name: Rattei, Thomas
last_name: Rattei
- first_name: Markus
full_name: Muttenthaler, Markus
last_name: Muttenthaler
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
- first_name: Christian
full_name: Gruber, Christian
last_name: Gruber
citation:
ama: Liutkeviciute Z, Gil Mansilla E, Eder T, et al. Oxytocin-like signaling in
ants influences metabolic gene expression and locomotor activity. The FASEB
Journal. 2018;32(12):6808-6821. doi:10.1096/fj.201800443
apa: Liutkeviciute, Z., Gil Mansilla, E., Eder, T., Casillas Perez, B. E., Giulia
Di Giglio, M., Muratspahić, E., … Gruber, C. (2018). Oxytocin-like signaling in
ants influences metabolic gene expression and locomotor activity. The FASEB
Journal. FASEB. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201800443
chicago: Liutkeviciute, Zita, Esther Gil Mansilla, Thomas Eder, Barbara E Casillas
Perez, Maria Giulia Di Giglio, Edin Muratspahić, Florian Grebien, et al. “Oxytocin-like
Signaling in Ants Influences Metabolic Gene Expression and Locomotor Activity.”
The FASEB Journal. FASEB, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201800443.
ieee: Z. Liutkeviciute et al., “Oxytocin-like signaling in ants influences
metabolic gene expression and locomotor activity,” The FASEB Journal, vol.
32, no. 12. FASEB, pp. 6808–6821, 2018.
ista: Liutkeviciute Z, Gil Mansilla E, Eder T, Casillas Perez BE, Giulia Di Giglio
M, Muratspahić E, Grebien F, Rattei T, Muttenthaler M, Cremer S, Gruber C. 2018.
Oxytocin-like signaling in ants influences metabolic gene expression and locomotor
activity. The FASEB Journal. 32(12), 6808–6821.
mla: Liutkeviciute, Zita, et al. “Oxytocin-like Signaling in Ants Influences Metabolic
Gene Expression and Locomotor Activity.” The FASEB Journal, vol. 32, no.
12, FASEB, 2018, pp. 6808–21, doi:10.1096/fj.201800443.
short: Z. Liutkeviciute, E. Gil Mansilla, T. Eder, B.E. Casillas Perez, M. Giulia
Di Giglio, E. Muratspahić, F. Grebien, T. Rattei, M. Muttenthaler, S. Cremer,
C. Gruber, The FASEB Journal 32 (2018) 6808–6821.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:08Z
date_published: 2018-11-29T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-13T09:37:32Z
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department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1096/fj.201800443
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- '000449359700035'
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month: '11'
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publication_status: published
publisher: FASEB
publist_id: '7721'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
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title: Oxytocin-like signaling in ants influences metabolic gene expression and locomotor
activity
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year: '2018'
...
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Many animals use antimicrobials to prevent or cure disease [1,2]. For example,
some animals will ingest plants with medicinal properties, both prophylactically
to prevent infection and therapeutically to self-medicate when sick. Antimicrobial
substances are also used as topical disinfectants, to prevent infection, protect
offspring and to sanitise their surroundings [1,2]. Social insects (ants, bees,
wasps and termites) build nests in environments with a high abundance and diversity
of pathogenic microorganisms — such as soil and rotting wood — and colonies are
often densely crowded, creating conditions that favour disease outbreaks. Consequently,
social insects have evolved collective disease defences to protect their colonies
from epidemics. These traits can be seen as functionally analogous to the immune
system of individual organisms [3,4]. This ‘social immunity’ utilises antimicrobials
to prevent and eradicate infections, and to keep the brood and nest clean. However,
these antimicrobial compounds can be harmful to the insects themselves, and it
is unknown how colonies prevent collateral damage when using them. Here, we demonstrate
that antimicrobial acids, produced by workers to disinfect the colony, are harmful
to the delicate pupal brood stage, but that the pupae are protected from the acids
by the presence of a silk cocoon. Garden ants spray their nests with an antimicrobial
poison to sanitize contaminated nestmates and brood. Here, Pull et al show that
they also prophylactically sanitise their colonies, and that the silk cocoon serves
as a barrier to protect developing pupae, thus preventing collateral damage during
nest sanitation.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Christopher
full_name: Pull, Christopher
id: 3C7F4840-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Pull
orcid: 0000-0003-1122-3982
- first_name: Sina
full_name: Metzler, Sina
id: 48204546-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Metzler
orcid: 0000-0002-9547-2494
- first_name: Elisabeth
full_name: Naderlinger, Elisabeth
id: 31757262-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Naderlinger
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
citation:
ama: Pull C, Metzler S, Naderlinger E, Cremer S. Protection against the lethal side
effects of social immunity in ants. Current Biology. 2018;28(19):R1139-R1140.
doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.063
apa: Pull, C., Metzler, S., Naderlinger, E., & Cremer, S. (2018). Protection
against the lethal side effects of social immunity in ants. Current Biology.
Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.063
chicago: Pull, Christopher, Sina Metzler, Elisabeth Naderlinger, and Sylvia Cremer.
“Protection against the Lethal Side Effects of Social Immunity in Ants.” Current
Biology. Cell Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.063.
ieee: C. Pull, S. Metzler, E. Naderlinger, and S. Cremer, “Protection against the
lethal side effects of social immunity in ants,” Current Biology, vol.
28, no. 19. Cell Press, pp. R1139–R1140, 2018.
ista: Pull C, Metzler S, Naderlinger E, Cremer S. 2018. Protection against the lethal
side effects of social immunity in ants. Current Biology. 28(19), R1139–R1140.
mla: Pull, Christopher, et al. “Protection against the Lethal Side Effects of Social
Immunity in Ants.” Current Biology, vol. 28, no. 19, Cell Press, 2018,
pp. R1139–40, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.063.
short: C. Pull, S. Metzler, E. Naderlinger, S. Cremer, Current Biology 28 (2018)
R1139–R1140.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:23Z
date_published: 2018-10-08T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-15T12:06:46Z
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department:
- _id: SyCr
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page: R1139 - R1140
publication: Current Biology
publication_status: published
publisher: Cell Press
publist_id: '7999'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Protection against the lethal side effects of social immunity in ants
type: journal_article
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year: '2018'
...
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Social insects have evolved enormous capacities to collectively build nests
and defend their colonies against both predators and pathogens. The latter is
achieved by a combination of individual immune responses and sophisticated collective
behavioral and organizational disease defenses, that is, social immunity. We investigated
how the presence or absence of these social defense lines affects individual-level
immunity in ant queens after bacterial infection. To this end, we injected queens
of the ant Linepithema humile with a mix of gram+ and gram− bacteria or a control
solution, reared them either with workers or alone and analyzed their gene expression
patterns at 2, 4, 8, and 12 hr post-injection, using RNA-seq. This allowed us
to test for the effect of bacterial infection, social context, as well as the
interaction between the two over the course of infection and raising of an immune
response. We found that social isolation per se affected queen gene expression
for metabolism genes, but not for immune genes. When infected, queens reared with
and without workers up-regulated similar numbers of innate immune genes revealing
activation of Toll and Imd signaling pathways and melanization. Interestingly,
however, they mostly regulated different genes along the pathways and showed a
different pattern of overall gene up-regulation or down-regulation. Hence, we
can conclude that the absence of workers does not compromise the onset of an individual
immune response by the queens, but that the social environment impacts the route
of the individual innate immune responses.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Lumi
full_name: Viljakainen, Lumi
last_name: Viljakainen
- first_name: Jaana
full_name: Jurvansuu, Jaana
last_name: Jurvansuu
- first_name: Ida
full_name: Holmberg, Ida
last_name: Holmberg
- first_name: Tobias
full_name: Pamminger, Tobias
last_name: Pamminger
- first_name: Silvio
full_name: Erler, Silvio
last_name: Erler
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
citation:
ama: Viljakainen L, Jurvansuu J, Holmberg I, Pamminger T, Erler S, Cremer S. Social
environment affects the transcriptomic response to bacteria in ant queens. Ecology
and Evolution. 2018;8(22):11031-11070. doi:10.1002/ece3.4573
apa: Viljakainen, L., Jurvansuu, J., Holmberg, I., Pamminger, T., Erler, S., &
Cremer, S. (2018). Social environment affects the transcriptomic response to bacteria
in ant queens. Ecology and Evolution. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4573
chicago: Viljakainen, Lumi, Jaana Jurvansuu, Ida Holmberg, Tobias Pamminger, Silvio
Erler, and Sylvia Cremer. “Social Environment Affects the Transcriptomic Response
to Bacteria in Ant Queens.” Ecology and Evolution. Wiley, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4573.
ieee: L. Viljakainen, J. Jurvansuu, I. Holmberg, T. Pamminger, S. Erler, and S.
Cremer, “Social environment affects the transcriptomic response to bacteria in
ant queens,” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, no. 22. Wiley, pp. 11031–11070,
2018.
ista: Viljakainen L, Jurvansuu J, Holmberg I, Pamminger T, Erler S, Cremer S. 2018.
Social environment affects the transcriptomic response to bacteria in ant queens.
Ecology and Evolution. 8(22), 11031–11070.
mla: Viljakainen, Lumi, et al. “Social Environment Affects the Transcriptomic Response
to Bacteria in Ant Queens.” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, no. 22, Wiley,
2018, pp. 11031–70, doi:10.1002/ece3.4573.
short: L. Viljakainen, J. Jurvansuu, I. Holmberg, T. Pamminger, S. Erler, S. Cremer,
Ecology and Evolution 8 (2018) 11031–11070.
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abstract:
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text: Social insect colonies have evolved many collectively performed adaptations
that reduce the impact of infectious disease and that are expected to maximize
their fitness. This colony-level protection is termed social immunity, and it
enhances the health and survival of the colony. In this review, we address how
social immunity emerges from its mechanistic components to produce colony-level
disease avoidance, resistance, and tolerance. To understand the evolutionary causes
and consequences of social immunity, we highlight the need for studies that evaluate
the effects of social immunity on colony fitness. We discuss the role that host
life history and ecology have on predicted eco-evolutionary dynamics, which differ
among the social insect lineages. Throughout the review, we highlight current
gaps in our knowledge and promising avenues for future research, which we hope
will bring us closer to an integrated understanding of socio-eco-evo-immunology.
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author:
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full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
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last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
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full_name: Pull, Christopher
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last_name: Pull
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last_name: Fürst
orcid: 0000-0002-3712-925X
citation:
ama: 'Cremer S, Pull C, Fürst M. Social immunity: Emergence and evolution of colony-level
disease protection. Annual Review of Entomology. 2018;63:105-123. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043110'
apa: 'Cremer, S., Pull, C., & Fürst, M. (2018). Social immunity: Emergence and
evolution of colony-level disease protection. Annual Review of Entomology.
Annual Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043110'
chicago: 'Cremer, Sylvia, Christopher Pull, and Matthias Fürst. “Social Immunity:
Emergence and Evolution of Colony-Level Disease Protection.” Annual Review
of Entomology. Annual Reviews, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043110.'
ieee: 'S. Cremer, C. Pull, and M. Fürst, “Social immunity: Emergence and evolution
of colony-level disease protection,” Annual Review of Entomology, vol.
63. Annual Reviews, pp. 105–123, 2018.'
ista: 'Cremer S, Pull C, Fürst M. 2018. Social immunity: Emergence and evolution
of colony-level disease protection. Annual Review of Entomology. 63, 105–123.'
mla: 'Cremer, Sylvia, et al. “Social Immunity: Emergence and Evolution of Colony-Level
Disease Protection.” Annual Review of Entomology, vol. 63, Annual Reviews,
2018, pp. 105–23, doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043110.'
short: S. Cremer, C. Pull, M. Fürst, Annual Review of Entomology 63 (2018) 105–123.
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text: Animal social networks are shaped by multiple selection pressures, including
the need to ensure efficient communication and functioning while simultaneously
limiting disease transmission. Social animals could potentially further reduce
epidemic risk by altering their social networks in the presence of pathogens,
yet there is currently no evidence for such pathogen-triggered responses. We tested
this hypothesis experimentally in the ant Lasius niger using a combination of
automated tracking, controlled pathogen exposure, transmission quantification,
and temporally explicit simulations. Pathogen exposure induced behavioral changes
in both exposed ants and their nestmates, which helped contain the disease by
reinforcing key transmission-inhibitory properties of the colony's contact network.
This suggests that social network plasticity in response to pathogens is an effective
strategy for mitigating the effects of disease in social groups.
acknowledgement: This project was funded by two European Research Council Advanced
Grants (Social Life, 249375, and resiliANT, 741491) and two Swiss National Science
Foundation grants (CR32I3_141063 and 310030_156732) to L.K. and a European Research
Council Starting Grant (SocialVaccines, 243071) to S.C.
article_processing_charge: No
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last_name: Grasse
- first_name: Alessandro
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last_name: Crespi
- first_name: Danielle
full_name: Mersch, Danielle
last_name: Mersch
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
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ama: Stroeymeyt N, Grasse AV, Crespi A, Mersch D, Cremer S, Keller L. Social network
plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect. Science.
2018;362(6417):941-945. doi:10.1126/science.aat4793
apa: Stroeymeyt, N., Grasse, A. V., Crespi, A., Mersch, D., Cremer, S., & Keller,
L. (2018). Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial
insect. Science. AAAS. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat4793
chicago: Stroeymeyt, Nathalie, Anna V Grasse, Alessandro Crespi, Danielle Mersch,
Sylvia Cremer, and Laurent Keller. “Social Network Plasticity Decreases Disease
Transmission in a Eusocial Insect.” Science. AAAS, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat4793.
ieee: N. Stroeymeyt, A. V. Grasse, A. Crespi, D. Mersch, S. Cremer, and L. Keller,
“Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect,”
Science, vol. 362, no. 6417. AAAS, pp. 941–945, 2018.
ista: Stroeymeyt N, Grasse AV, Crespi A, Mersch D, Cremer S, Keller L. 2018. Social
network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect. Science.
362(6417), 941–945.
mla: Stroeymeyt, Nathalie, et al. “Social Network Plasticity Decreases Disease Transmission
in a Eusocial Insect.” Science, vol. 362, no. 6417, AAAS, 2018, pp. 941–45,
doi:10.1126/science.aat4793.
short: N. Stroeymeyt, A.V. Grasse, A. Crespi, D. Mersch, S. Cremer, L. Keller, Science
362 (2018) 941–945.
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L. (2018). Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial
insect. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.1322669
chicago: Stroeymeyt, Nathalie, Anna V Grasse, Alessandro Crespi, Danielle Mersch,
Sylvia Cremer, and Laurent Keller. “Social Network Plasticity Decreases Disease
Transmission in a Eusocial Insect.” Zenodo, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.1322669.
ieee: N. Stroeymeyt, A. V. Grasse, A. Crespi, D. Mersch, S. Cremer, and L. Keller,
“Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect.”
Zenodo, 2018.
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network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect, Zenodo,
10.5281/ZENODO.1322669.
mla: Stroeymeyt, Nathalie, et al. Social Network Plasticity Decreases Disease
Transmission in a Eusocial Insect. Zenodo, 2018, doi:10.5281/ZENODO.1322669.
short: N. Stroeymeyt, A.V. Grasse, A. Crespi, D. Mersch, S. Cremer, L. Keller, (2018).
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text: 'Background: The phenomenon of immune priming, i.e. enhanced protection following
a secondary exposure to a pathogen, has now been demonstrated in a wide range
of invertebrate species. Despite accumulating phenotypic evidence, knowledge of
its mechanistic underpinnings is currently very limited. Here we used the system
of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum and the insect pathogen Bacillus
thuringiensis (Bt) to further our molecular understanding of the oral immune priming
phenomenon. We addressed how ingestion of bacterial cues (derived from spore supernatants)
of an orally pathogenic and non-pathogenic Bt strain affects gene expression upon
later challenge exposure, using a whole-transcriptome sequencing approach. Results:
Whereas gene expression of individuals primed with the orally non-pathogenic strain
showed minor changes to controls, we found that priming with the pathogenic strain
induced regulation of a large set of distinct genes, many of which are known immune
candidates. Intriguingly, the immune repertoire activated upon priming and subsequent
challenge qualitatively differed from the one mounted upon infection with Bt without
previous priming. Moreover, a large subset of priming-specific genes showed an
inverse regulation compared to their regulation upon challenge only. Conclusions:
Our data demonstrate that gene expression upon infection is strongly affected
by previous immune priming. We hypothesise that this shift in gene expression
indicates activation of a more targeted and efficient response towards a previously
encountered pathogen, in anticipation of potential secondary encounter.'
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Jenny
full_name: Greenwood, Jenny
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- first_name: Barbara
full_name: Milutinovic, Barbara
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last_name: Milutinovic
orcid: 0000-0002-8214-4758
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Peuß, Robert
last_name: Peuß
- first_name: Sarah
full_name: Behrens, Sarah
last_name: Behrens
- first_name: Daniela
full_name: Essar, Daniela
last_name: Essar
- first_name: Philip
full_name: Rosenstiel, Philip
last_name: Rosenstiel
- first_name: Hinrich
full_name: Schulenburg, Hinrich
last_name: Schulenburg
- first_name: Joachim
full_name: Kurtz, Joachim
last_name: Kurtz
citation:
ama: Greenwood J, Milutinovic B, Peuß R, et al. Oral immune priming with Bacillus
thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae.
BMC Genomics. 2017;18(1):329. doi:10.1186/s12864-017-3705-7
apa: Greenwood, J., Milutinovic, B., Peuß, R., Behrens, S., Essar, D., Rosenstiel,
P., … Kurtz, J. (2017). Oral immune priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces
a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae. BMC Genomics.
BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3705-7
chicago: Greenwood, Jenny, Barbara Milutinovic, Robert Peuß, Sarah Behrens, Daniela
Essar, Philip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg, and Joachim Kurtz. “Oral Immune
Priming with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces a Shift in the Gene Expression of
Tribolium Castaneum Larvae.” BMC Genomics. BioMed Central, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3705-7.
ieee: J. Greenwood et al., “Oral immune priming with Bacillus thuringiensis
induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae,” BMC
Genomics, vol. 18, no. 1. BioMed Central, p. 329, 2017.
ista: Greenwood J, Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Behrens S, Essar D, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg
H, Kurtz J. 2017. Oral immune priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift
in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae. BMC Genomics. 18(1), 329.
mla: Greenwood, Jenny, et al. “Oral Immune Priming with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces
a Shift in the Gene Expression of Tribolium Castaneum Larvae.” BMC Genomics,
vol. 18, no. 1, BioMed Central, 2017, p. 329, doi:10.1186/s12864-017-3705-7.
short: J. Greenwood, B. Milutinovic, R. Peuß, S. Behrens, D. Essar, P. Rosenstiel,
H. Schulenburg, J. Kurtz, BMC Genomics 18 (2017) 329.
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text: 'Lists of all differentially expressed genes in the different priming-challenge
treatments (compared to the fully naïve control; xlsx file). Relevant columns
include the following: sample_1 and sample_2 – treatment groups being compared;
Normalised FPKM sample_1 and sample_2 – FPKM of samples being compared; log2(fold_change)
– log2(FPKM sample 2/FPKM sample 1), i.e. negative means sample 1 upregulated
compared with sample 2, positive means sample 2 upregulated compared with sample
1; cuffdiff test_statistic – test statistic of differential expression test; p_value
– p-value of differential expression test; q_value (FDR correction) – adjusted
P-value of differential expression test. (XLSX 598 kb)'
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last_name: Milutinovic
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- first_name: Robert
full_name: Peuß, Robert
last_name: Peuß
- first_name: Sarah
full_name: Behrens, Sarah
last_name: Behrens
- first_name: Daniela
full_name: Essar, Daniela
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- first_name: Philip
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last_name: Rosenstiel
- first_name: Hinrich
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ama: 'Greenwood J, Milutinovic B, Peuß R, et al. Additional file 1: Table S1. of
Oral immune priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression
of Tribolium castaneum larvae. 2017. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d1.v1'
apa: 'Greenwood, J., Milutinovic, B., Peuß, R., Behrens, S., Essar, D., Rosenstiel,
P., … Kurtz, J. (2017). Additional file 1: Table S1. of Oral immune priming with
Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum
larvae. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d1.v1'
chicago: 'Greenwood, Jenny, Barbara Milutinovic, Robert Peuß, Sarah Behrens, Daniela
Essar, Philip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg, and Joachim Kurtz. “Additional
File 1: Table S1. of Oral Immune Priming with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces a
Shift in the Gene Expression of Tribolium Castaneum Larvae.” Springer Nature,
2017. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d1.v1.'
ieee: 'J. Greenwood et al., “Additional file 1: Table S1. of Oral immune
priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of
Tribolium castaneum larvae.” Springer Nature, 2017.'
ista: 'Greenwood J, Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Behrens S, Essar D, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg
H, Kurtz J. 2017. Additional file 1: Table S1. of Oral immune priming with Bacillus
thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae,
Springer Nature, 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d1.v1.'
mla: 'Greenwood, Jenny, et al. Additional File 1: Table S1. of Oral Immune Priming
with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces a Shift in the Gene Expression of Tribolium
Castaneum Larvae. Springer Nature, 2017, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d1.v1.'
short: J. Greenwood, B. Milutinovic, R. Peuß, S. Behrens, D. Essar, P. Rosenstiel,
H. Schulenburg, J. Kurtz, (2017).
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- first_name: Robert
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citation:
ama: 'Greenwood J, Milutinovic B, Peuß R, et al. Additional file 5: Table S3. of
Oral immune priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression
of Tribolium castaneum larvae. 2017. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d5.v1'
apa: 'Greenwood, J., Milutinovic, B., Peuß, R., Behrens, S., Essar, D., Rosenstiel,
P., … Kurtz, J. (2017). Additional file 5: Table S3. of Oral immune priming with
Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum
larvae. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d5.v1'
chicago: 'Greenwood, Jenny, Barbara Milutinovic, Robert Peuß, Sarah Behrens, Daniela
Essar, Philip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg, and Joachim Kurtz. “Additional
File 5: Table S3. of Oral Immune Priming with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces a
Shift in the Gene Expression of Tribolium Castaneum Larvae.” Springer Nature,
2017. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d5.v1.'
ieee: 'J. Greenwood et al., “Additional file 5: Table S3. of Oral immune
priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of
Tribolium castaneum larvae.” Springer Nature, 2017.'
ista: 'Greenwood J, Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Behrens S, Essar D, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg
H, Kurtz J. 2017. Additional file 5: Table S3. of Oral immune priming with Bacillus
thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae,
Springer Nature, 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d5.v1.'
mla: 'Greenwood, Jenny, et al. Additional File 5: Table S3. of Oral Immune Priming
with Bacillus Thuringiensis Induces a Shift in the Gene Expression of Tribolium
Castaneum Larvae. Springer Nature, 2017, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d5.v1.'
short: J. Greenwood, B. Milutinovic, R. Peuß, S. Behrens, D. Essar, P. Rosenstiel,
H. Schulenburg, J. Kurtz, (2017).
date_created: 2021-08-10T08:07:12Z
date_published: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-22T09:47:44Z
day: '26'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3756974_d5.v1
main_file_link:
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lifespan and decrease its reproductive value. The terminal investment hypothesis
predicts that individuals faced with a reduced survival should invest more into
reproduction instead of maintenance and growth. Several studies suggest that individuals
are indeed able to estimate their body condition and to increase their reproductive
effort with approaching death, while other studies gave ambiguous results. We
investigate whether queens of a perennial social insect (ant) are able to boost
their reproduction following infection with an obligate killing pathogen. Social
insect queens are special with regard to reproduction and aging, as they outlive
conspecific non-reproductive workers. Moreover, in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior,
fecundity increases with queen age. However, it remained unclear whether this
reflects negative reproductive senescence or terminal investment in response to
approaching death. Here, we test whether queens of C. obscurior react to infection
with the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum by an increased egg-laying
rate. We show that a fungal infection triggers a reinforced investment in reproduction
in queens. This adjustment of the reproductive rate by ant queens is consistent
with predictions of the terminal investment hypothesis and is reported for the
first time in a social insect.
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reproductive efforts after pathogen infection. Royal Society Open Science.
2017;4(7). doi:10.1098/rsos.170547
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Ant queens increase their reproductive efforts after pathogen infection. Royal
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chicago: Giehr, Julia, Anna V Grasse, Sylvia Cremer, Jürgen Heinze, and Alexandra
Schrempf. “Ant Queens Increase Their Reproductive Efforts after Pathogen Infection.”
Royal Society Open Science. Royal Society, The, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170547.
ieee: J. Giehr, A. V. Grasse, S. Cremer, J. Heinze, and A. Schrempf, “Ant queens
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Pathogen Infection.” Royal Society Open Science, vol. 4, no. 7, 170547,
Royal Society, The, 2017, doi:10.1098/rsos.170547.
short: J. Giehr, A.V. Grasse, S. Cremer, J. Heinze, A. Schrempf, Royal Society Open
Science 4 (2017).
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Raw data from ant queens increase their reproductive efforts after pathogen infection.
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text: 'Social insect societies are long-standing models for understanding social
behaviour and evolution. Unlike other advanced biological societies (such as the
multicellular body), the component parts of social insect societies can be easily
deconstructed and manipulated. Recent methodological and theoretical innovations
have exploited this trait to address an expanded range of biological questions.
We illustrate the broadening range of biological insight coming from social insect
biology with four examples. These new frontiers promote open-minded, interdisciplinary
exploration of one of the richest and most complex of biological phenomena: sociality.'
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to address big questions in biology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 2017;32(11):861-872.
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apa: Kennedy, P., Baron, G., Qiu, B., Freitak, D., Helantera, H., Hunt, E., … Sumner,
S. (2017). Deconstructing superorganisms and societies to address big questions
in biology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.08.004
chicago: Kennedy, Patrick, Gemma Baron, Bitao Qiu, Dalial Freitak, Heikki Helantera,
Edmund Hunt, Fabio Manfredini, et al. “Deconstructing Superorganisms and Societies
to Address Big Questions in Biology.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
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superorganisms and societies to address big questions in biology. Trends in Ecology
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Big Questions in Biology.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 32, no.
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short: P. Kennedy, G. Baron, B. Qiu, D. Freitak, H. Helantera, E. Hunt, F. Manfredini,
T. O’Shea Wheller, S. Patalano, C. Pull, T. Sasaki, D. Taylor, C. Wyatt, S. Sumner,
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32 (2017) 861–872.
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text: 'Contagious diseases must transmit from infectious to susceptible hosts in
order to reproduce. Whilst vectored pathogens can rely on intermediaries to find
new hosts for them, many infectious pathogens require close contact or direct
interaction between hosts for transmission. Hence, this means that conspecifics
are often the main source of infection for most animals and so, in theory, animals
should avoid conspecifics to reduce their risk of infection. Of course, in reality
animals must interact with one another, as a bare minimum, to mate. However, being
social provides many additional benefits and group living has become a taxonomically
diverse and widespread trait. How then do social animals overcome the issue of
increased disease? Over the last few decades, the social insects (ants, termites
and some bees and wasps) have become a model system for studying disease in social
animals. On paper, a social insect colony should be particularly susceptible to
disease, given that they often contain thousands of potential hosts that are closely
related and frequently interact, as well as exhibiting stable environmental conditions
that encourage microbial growth. Yet, disease outbreaks appear to be rare and
attempts to eradicate pest species using pathogens have failed time and again.
Evolutionary biologists investigating this observation have discovered that the
reduced disease susceptibility in social insects is, in part, due to collectively
performed disease defences of the workers. These defences act like a “social immune
system” for the colony, resulting in a per capita decrease in disease, termed
social immunity. Our understanding of social immunity, and its importance in relation
to the immunological defences of each insect, continues to grow, but there remain
many open questions. In this thesis I have studied disease defence in garden ants.
In the first data chapter, I use the invasive garden ant, Lasius neglectus, to
investigate how colonies mitigate lethal infections and prevent them from spreading
systemically. I find that ants have evolved ‘destructive disinfection’ – a behaviour
that uses endogenously produced acidic poison to kill diseased brood and to prevent
the pathogen from replicating. In the second experimental chapter, I continue
to study the use of poison in invasive garden ant colonies, finding that it is
sprayed prophylactically within the nest. However, this spraying has negative
effects on developing pupae when they have had their cocoons artificially removed.
Hence, I suggest that acidic nest sanitation may be maintaining larval cocoon
spinning in this species. In the next experimental chapter, I investigated how
colony founding black garden ant queens (Lasius niger) prevent disease when a
co-foundress dies. I show that ant queens prophylactically perform undertaking
behaviours, similar to those performed by the workers in mature nests. When a
co-foundress was infected, these undertaking behaviours improved the survival
of the healthy queen. In the final data chapter, I explored how immunocompetence
(measured as antifungal activity) changes as incipient black garden ant colonies
grow and mature, from the solitary queen phase to colonies with several hundred
workers. Queen and worker antifungal activity varied throughout this time period,
but despite social immunity, did not decrease as colonies matured. In addition
to the above data chapters, this thesis includes two co-authored reviews. In the
first, we examine the state of the art in the field of social immunity and how
it might develop in the future. In the second, we identify several challenges
and open questions in the study of disease defence in animals. We highlight how
social insects offer a unique model to tackle some of these problems, as disease
defence can be studied from the cell to the society. '
acknowledgement: "ERC FP7 programme (grant agreement no. 240371)\r\nI have been supremely
spoilt to work in a lab with such good resources and I must thank the wonderful
Cremer group technicians, Anna, Barbara, Eva and Florian, for all of their help
and keeping the lab up and running. You guys will probably be the most missed once
I realise just how much work you have been saving me! For the same reason, I must
say a big Dzi ę kuj ę Ci to Wonder Woman Wanda, for her tireless efforts feeding
my colonies and cranking out thousands of petri dishes and sugar tubes. Again, you
will be sorely missed now that I will have to take this task on myself. Of course,
I will be eternally indebted to Prof. Sylvia Cremer for taking me under her wing
and being a constant source of guidance and inspiration. You have given me the perfect
balance of independence and supervision. I cannot thank you enough for creating
such a great working environment and allowing me the freedom to follow my own research
questions. I have had so many exceptional opportunities – attending and presenting
at conferences all over the world, inviting me to write the ARE with you, going
to workshops in Panama and Switzerland, and even organising our own PhD course –
that I often think I must have had the best PhD in the world. You have taught me
so much and made me a scientist. I sincerely hope we get the chance to work together
again in the future. Thank you for everything. I must also thank my PhD Committee,
Daria Siekhaus and Jacobus “Koos” Boomsma, for being very supportive throughout
the duration of my PhD. "
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text: 'Background: Social insects form densely crowded societies in environments
with high pathogen loads, but have evolved collective defences that mitigate the
impact of disease. However, colony-founding queens lack this protection and suffer
high rates of mortality. The impact of pathogens may be exacerbated in species
where queens found colonies together, as healthy individuals may contract pathogens
from infectious co-founders. Therefore, we tested whether ant queens avoid founding
colonies with pathogen-exposed conspecifics and how they might limit disease transmission
from infectious individuals. Results: Using Lasius Niger queens and a naturally
infecting fungal pathogen Metarhizium brunneum, we observed that queens were equally
likely to found colonies with another pathogen-exposed or sham-treated queen.
However, when one queen died, the surviving individual performed biting, burial
and removal of the corpse. These undertaking behaviours were performed prophylactically,
i.e. targeted equally towards non-infected and infected corpses, as well as carried
out before infected corpses became infectious. Biting and burial reduced the risk
of the queens contracting and dying from disease from an infectious corpse of
a dead co-foundress. Conclusions: We show that co-founding ant queens express
undertaking behaviours that, in mature colonies, are performed exclusively by
workers. Such infection avoidance behaviours act before the queens can contract
the disease and will therefore improve the overall chance of colony founding success
in ant queens.'
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ama: Pull C, Cremer S. Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic
undertaking behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 2017;17(1). doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4
apa: Pull, C., & Cremer, S. (2017). Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by
performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology.
BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4
chicago: Pull, Christopher, and Sylvia Cremer. “Co-Founding Ant Queens Prevent Disease
by Performing Prophylactic Undertaking Behaviour.” BMC Evolutionary Biology.
BioMed Central, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4.
ieee: C. Pull and S. Cremer, “Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing
prophylactic undertaking behaviour,” BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 17,
no. 1. BioMed Central, 2017.
ista: Pull C, Cremer S. 2017. Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing
prophylactic undertaking behaviour. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1), 219.
mla: Pull, Christopher, and Sylvia Cremer. “Co-Founding Ant Queens Prevent Disease
by Performing Prophylactic Undertaking Behaviour.” BMC Evolutionary Biology,
vol. 17, no. 1, 219, BioMed Central, 2017, doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4.
short: C. Pull, S. Cremer, BMC Evolutionary Biology 17 (2017).
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title: Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking
behaviour
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text: The social insects bees, wasps, ants, and termites are species-rich, occur
in many habitats, and often constitute a large part of the biomass. Many are also
invasive, including species of termites, the red imported fire ant, and the Argentine
ant. While invasive social insects have been a problem in Southern Europe for
some time, Central Europa was free of invasive ant species until recently because
most ants are adapted to warmer climates. Only in the 1990s, did Lasius neglectus,
a close relative of the common black garden ant, arrive in Germany. First described
in 1990 based on individuals collected in Budapest, the species has since been
detected for example in France, Germany, Spain, England, and Kyrgyzstan. The species
is spread with soil during construction work or plantings, and L. neglectus therefore
is often found in parks and botanical gardens. Another invasive ant now spreading
in southern Germany is Formica fuscocinerea, which occurs along rivers, including
in the sandy floodplains of the river Isar. As is typical of pioneer species,
F. fuscocinerea quickly becomes extremely abundant and therefore causes problems
for example on playgrounds in Munich. All invasive ant species are characterized
by cooperation across nests, leading to strongly interconnected, very large super-colonies.
The resulting dominance results in the extinction of native ant species as well
as other arthropod species and thus in the reduction of biodiversity.
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ama: 'Cremer S. Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die heimische
Fauna verändern. Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. 2017;46:105-116.'
apa: 'Cremer, S. (2017). Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und
die heimische Fauna verändern. Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. Verlag Dr.
Friedrich Pfeil.'
chicago: 'Cremer, Sylvia. “Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie Sie Sich Ausbreiten Und
Die Heimische Fauna Verändern.” Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. Verlag Dr.
Friedrich Pfeil, 2017.'
ieee: 'S. Cremer, “Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die heimische
Fauna verändern,” Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie, vol. 46. Verlag Dr. Friedrich
Pfeil, pp. 105–116, 2017.'
ista: 'Cremer S. 2017. Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie sie sich ausbreiten und die
heimische Fauna verändern. Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie. 46, 105–116.'
mla: 'Cremer, Sylvia. “Invasive Ameisen in Europa: Wie Sie Sich Ausbreiten Und Die
Heimische Fauna Verändern.” Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie, vol. 46, Verlag
Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2017, pp. 105–16.'
short: S. Cremer, Rundgespräche Forum Ökologie 46 (2017) 105–116.
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abstract:
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text: Immune specificity is the degree to which a host’s immune system discriminates
among various pathogens or antigenic variants. Vertebrate immune memory is highly
specific due to antibody responses. On the other hand, some invertebrates show
immune priming, i.e. improved survival after secondary exposure to a previously
encountered pathogen. Until now, specificity of priming has only been demonstrated
via the septic infection route or when live pathogens were used for priming. Therefore,
we tested for specificity in the oral priming route in the red flour beetle, Tribolium
castaneum. For priming, we used pathogen-free supernatants derived from three
different strains of the entomopathogen, Bacillus thuringiensis, which express
different Cry toxin variants known for their toxicity against this beetle. Subsequent
exposure to the infective spores showed that oral priming was specific for two
naturally occurring strains, while a third engineered strain did not induce any
priming effect. Our data demonstrate that oral immune priming with a non-infectious
bacterial agent can be specific, but the priming effect is not universal across
all bacterial strains.
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- first_name: Joachim
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ama: Futo M, Sell M, Kutzer M, Kurtz J. Specificity of oral immune priming in the
red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters. 2017;13(12). doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632
apa: Futo, M., Sell, M., Kutzer, M., & Kurtz, J. (2017). Specificity of oral
immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters.
The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632
chicago: Futo, Momir, Marie Sell, Megan Kutzer, and Joachim Kurtz. “Specificity
of Oral Immune Priming in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium Castaneum.” Biology
Letters. The Royal Society, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632.
ieee: M. Futo, M. Sell, M. Kutzer, and J. Kurtz, “Specificity of oral immune priming
in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum,” Biology Letters, vol. 13,
no. 12. The Royal Society, 2017.
ista: Futo M, Sell M, Kutzer M, Kurtz J. 2017. Specificity of oral immune priming
in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Biology Letters. 13(12), 0632.
mla: Futo, Momir, et al. “Specificity of Oral Immune Priming in the Red Flour Beetle
Tribolium Castaneum.” Biology Letters, vol. 13, no. 12, 0632, The Royal
Society, 2017, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0632.
short: M. Futo, M. Sell, M. Kutzer, J. Kurtz, Biology Letters 13 (2017).
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text: Across multicellular organisms, the costs of reproduction and self-maintenance
result in a life history trade-off between fecundity and longevity. Queens of
perennial social Hymenoptera are both highly fertile and long-lived, and thus,
this fundamental trade-off is lacking. Whether social insect males similarly evade
the fecundity/longevity trade-off remains largely unstudied. Wingless males of
the ant genus Cardiocondyla stay in their natal colonies throughout their relatively
long lives and mate with multiple female sexuals. Here, we show that Cardiocondyla
obscurior males that were allowed to mate with large numbers of female sexuals
had a shortened life span compared to males that mated at a low frequency or virgin
males. Although frequent mating negatively affects longevity, males clearly benefit
from a “live fast, die young strategy” by inseminating as many female sexuals
as possible at a cost to their own survival.
acknowledgement: 'German Science Foundation. Grant Number: SCHR 1135/2-1. We thank
M. Adam for handling part of the setups and J. Zoellner for behavioral observations.'
author:
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ama: Metzler S, Heinze J, Schrempf A. Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology
and Evolution. 2016;6(24):8903-8906. doi:10.1002/ece3.2474
apa: Metzler, S., Heinze, J., & Schrempf, A. (2016). Mating and longevity in
ant males. Ecology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2474
chicago: Metzler, Sina, Jürgen Heinze, and Alexandra Schrempf. “Mating and Longevity
in Ant Males.” Ecology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2474.
ieee: S. Metzler, J. Heinze, and A. Schrempf, “Mating and longevity in ant males,”
Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 24. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 8903–8906,
2016.
ista: Metzler S, Heinze J, Schrempf A. 2016. Mating and longevity in ant males.
Ecology and Evolution. 6(24), 8903–8906.
mla: Metzler, Sina, et al. “Mating and Longevity in Ant Males.” Ecology and Evolution,
vol. 6, no. 24, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp. 8903–06, doi:10.1002/ece3.2474.
short: S. Metzler, J. Heinze, A. Schrempf, Ecology and Evolution 6 (2016) 8903–8906.
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acknowledgement: The authors thank Sophie A.O. Armitage and Jan N. Offenborn for helpful
comments on the figures, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, KU 1929/4-2)
within the priority programme SPP 1399 “Host–Parasite Coevolution”.
author:
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- first_name: Kevin
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- first_name: Joachim
full_name: Kurtz, Joachim
last_name: Kurtz
citation:
ama: 'Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Ferro K, Kurtz J. Immune priming in arthropods: an
update focusing on the red flour beetle. Zoology . 2016;119(4):254-261.
doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006'
apa: 'Milutinovic, B., Peuß, R., Ferro, K., & Kurtz, J. (2016). Immune priming
in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle. Zoology . Elsevier.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006'
chicago: 'Milutinovic, Barbara, Robert Peuß, Kevin Ferro, and Joachim Kurtz. “Immune
Priming in Arthropods: An Update Focusing on the Red Flour Beetle.” Zoology
. Elsevier, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006.'
ieee: 'B. Milutinovic, R. Peuß, K. Ferro, and J. Kurtz, “Immune priming in arthropods:
an update focusing on the red flour beetle,” Zoology , vol. 119, no. 4.
Elsevier, pp. 254–261, 2016.'
ista: 'Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Ferro K, Kurtz J. 2016. Immune priming in arthropods:
an update focusing on the red flour beetle. Zoology . 119(4), 254–261.'
mla: 'Milutinovic, Barbara, et al. “Immune Priming in Arthropods: An Update Focusing
on the Red Flour Beetle.” Zoology , vol. 119, no. 4, Elsevier, 2016, pp.
254–61, doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006.'
short: B. Milutinovic, R. Peuß, K. Ferro, J. Kurtz, Zoology 119 (2016) 254–261.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:41Z
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abstract:
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text: Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1 (Dscam1) has widereaching and vital
neuronal functions although the role it plays in insect and crustacean immunity
is less well understood. In this study, we combine different approaches to understand
the roles that Dscam1 plays in fitness-related contexts in two model insect species.
Contrary to our expectations, we found no short-term modulation of Dscam1 gene
expression after haemocoelic or oral bacterial exposure in Tribolium castaneum,
or after haemocoelic bacterial exposure in Drosophila melanogaster. Furthermore,
RNAi-mediated Dscam1 knockdown and subsequent bacterial exposure did not reduce
T. castaneum survival. However, Dscam1 knockdown in larvae resulted in adult locomotion
defects, as well as dramatically reduced fecundity in males and females. We suggest
that Dscam1 does not always play a straightforward role in immunity, but strongly
influences behaviour and fecundity. This study takes a step towards understanding
more about the role of this intriguing gene from different phenotypic perspectives.
acknowledgement: "We thank Dietmar Schmucker for reading a draft of this manuscript
and thank him and his group for\r\nhelpful discussions. We thank Barbara Hasert,
Kevin Ferro and Manuel F. Talarico for technical support and helpful\r\ndiscussions.
We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments. This study was supported
by grants from the Volkswagen Stiftung (1/83 516 and AZ 86020: both to S.A.O.A.)
and from the DFG priority programme 1399 ‘Host parasite coevolution’ (KU 1929/4-2
to R.P. and J.K.)."
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author:
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- first_name: Barbara
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last_name: Milutinovic
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- first_name: Marlene
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last_name: Sroka
- first_name: Jörn
full_name: Scharsack, Jörn
last_name: Scharsack
- first_name: Joachim
full_name: Kurtz, Joachim
last_name: Kurtz
- first_name: Sophie
full_name: Armitage, Sophie
last_name: Armitage
citation:
ama: 'Peuß R, Wensing K, Woestmann L, et al. Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule
1: Testing for a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction. Royal
Society Open Science. 2016;3(4). doi:10.1098/rsos.160138'
apa: 'Peuß, R., Wensing, K., Woestmann, L., Eggert, H., Milutinovic, B., Sroka,
M., … Armitage, S. (2016). Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1: Testing for
a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction. Royal Society Open Science.
Royal Society, The. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160138'
chicago: 'Peuß, Robert, Kristina Wensing, Luisa Woestmann, Hendrik Eggert, Barbara
Milutinovic, Marlene Sroka, Jörn Scharsack, Joachim Kurtz, and Sophie Armitage.
“Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule 1: Testing for a Role in Insect Immunity,
Behaviour and Reproduction.” Royal Society Open Science. Royal Society,
The, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160138.'
ieee: 'R. Peuß et al., “Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1: Testing for
a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction,” Royal Society Open
Science, vol. 3, no. 4. Royal Society, The, 2016.'
ista: 'Peuß R, Wensing K, Woestmann L, Eggert H, Milutinovic B, Sroka M, Scharsack
J, Kurtz J, Armitage S. 2016. Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1: Testing
for a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction. Royal Society Open
Science. 3(4), 160138.'
mla: 'Peuß, Robert, et al. “Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule 1: Testing for
a Role in Insect Immunity, Behaviour and Reproduction.” Royal Society Open
Science, vol. 3, no. 4, 160138, Royal Society, The, 2016, doi:10.1098/rsos.160138.'
short: R. Peuß, K. Wensing, L. Woestmann, H. Eggert, B. Milutinovic, M. Sroka, J.
Scharsack, J. Kurtz, S. Armitage, Royal Society Open Science 3 (2016).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:58Z
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acknowledgement: We would like to thank Mihai Netea for inviting us to contribute
to this Theme Issue.
author:
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last_name: Kurtz
citation:
ama: Milutinovic B, Kurtz J. Immune memory in invertebrates. Seminars in Immunology.
2016;28(4):328-342. doi:10.1016/j.smim.2016.05.004
apa: Milutinovic, B., & Kurtz, J. (2016). Immune memory in invertebrates. Seminars
in Immunology. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smim.2016.05.004
chicago: Milutinovic, Barbara, and Joachim Kurtz. “Immune Memory in Invertebrates.”
Seminars in Immunology. Academic Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smim.2016.05.004.
ieee: B. Milutinovic and J. Kurtz, “Immune memory in invertebrates,” Seminars
in Immunology, vol. 28, no. 4. Academic Press, pp. 328–342, 2016.
ista: Milutinovic B, Kurtz J. 2016. Immune memory in invertebrates. Seminars in
Immunology. 28(4), 328–342.
mla: Milutinovic, Barbara, and Joachim Kurtz. “Immune Memory in Invertebrates.”
Seminars in Immunology, vol. 28, no. 4, Academic Press, 2016, pp. 328–42,
doi:10.1016/j.smim.2016.05.004.
short: B. Milutinovic, J. Kurtz, Seminars in Immunology 28 (2016) 328–342.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:51:03Z
date_published: 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:49:30Z
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doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2016.05.004
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issue: '4'
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- iso: eng
month: '08'
oa_version: None
page: 328 - 342
publication: Seminars in Immunology
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publisher: Academic Press
publist_id: '6053'
quality_controlled: '1'
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status: public
title: Immune memory in invertebrates
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...
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abstract:
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text: The rare socially parasitic butterfly Maculinea alcon occurs in two forms,
which are characteristic of hygric or xeric habitats and which exploit different
host plants and host ants. The status of these two forms has been the subject
of considerable controversy. Populations of the two forms are usually spatially
distinct, but at Răscruci in Romania both forms occur on the same site (syntopically).
We examined the genetic differentiation between the two forms using eight microsatellite
markers, and compared with a nearby hygric site, Şardu. Our results showed that
while the two forms are strongly differentiated at Răscruci, it is the xeric form
there that is most similar to the hygric form at Şardu, and Bayesian clustering
algorithms suggest that these two populations have exchanged genes relatively
recently. We found strong evidence for population substructuring, caused by high
within host ant nest relatedness, indicating very limited dispersal of most ovipositing
females, but not association with particular host ant species. Our results are
consistent with the results of larger scale phylogeographic studies that suggest
that the two forms represent local ecotypes specialising on different host plants,
each with a distinct flowering phenology, providing a temporal rather than spatial
barrier to gene flow.
article_number: '1865'
author:
- first_name: András
full_name: Tartally, András
last_name: Tartally
- first_name: Andreas
full_name: Kelager, Andreas
last_name: Kelager
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Fürst, Matthias
id: 393B1196-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Fürst
orcid: 0000-0002-3712-925X
- first_name: David
full_name: Nash, David
last_name: Nash
citation:
ama: Tartally A, Kelager A, Fürst M, Nash D. Host plant use drives genetic differentiation
in syntopic populations of Maculinea alcon. PeerJ. 2016;2016(3). doi:10.7717/peerj.1865
apa: Tartally, A., Kelager, A., Fürst, M., & Nash, D. (2016). Host plant use
drives genetic differentiation in syntopic populations of Maculinea alcon. PeerJ.
PeerJ. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1865
chicago: Tartally, András, Andreas Kelager, Matthias Fürst, and David Nash. “Host
Plant Use Drives Genetic Differentiation in Syntopic Populations of Maculinea
Alcon.” PeerJ. PeerJ, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1865.
ieee: A. Tartally, A. Kelager, M. Fürst, and D. Nash, “Host plant use drives genetic
differentiation in syntopic populations of Maculinea alcon,” PeerJ, vol.
2016, no. 3. PeerJ, 2016.
ista: Tartally A, Kelager A, Fürst M, Nash D. 2016. Host plant use drives genetic
differentiation in syntopic populations of Maculinea alcon. PeerJ. 2016(3), 1865.
mla: Tartally, András, et al. “Host Plant Use Drives Genetic Differentiation in
Syntopic Populations of Maculinea Alcon.” PeerJ, vol. 2016, no. 3, 1865,
PeerJ, 2016, doi:10.7717/peerj.1865.
short: A. Tartally, A. Kelager, M. Fürst, D. Nash, PeerJ 2016 (2016).
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abstract:
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text: 'Summary: Declining populations of bee pollinators are a cause of concern,
with major repercussions for biodiversity loss and food security. RNA viruses
associated with honeybees represent a potential threat to other insect pollinators,
but the extent of this threat is poorly understood. This study aims to attain
a detailed understanding of the current and ongoing risk of emerging infectious
disease (EID) transmission between managed and wild pollinator species across
a wide range of RNA viruses. Within a structured large-scale national survey across
26 independent sites, we quantify the prevalence and pathogen loads of multiple
RNA viruses in co-occurring managed honeybee (Apis mellifera) and wild bumblebee
(Bombus spp.) populations. We then construct models that compare virus prevalence
between wild and managed pollinators. Multiple RNA viruses associated with honeybees
are widespread in sympatric wild bumblebee populations. Virus prevalence in honeybees
is a significant predictor of virus prevalence in bumblebees, but we remain cautious
in speculating over the principle direction of pathogen transmission. We demonstrate
species-specific differences in prevalence, indicating significant variation in
disease susceptibility or tolerance. Pathogen loads within individual bumblebees
may be high and in the case of at least one RNA virus, prevalence is higher in
wild bumblebees than in managed honeybee populations. Our findings indicate widespread
transmission of RNA viruses between managed and wild bee pollinators, pointing
to an interconnected network of potential disease pressures within and among pollinator
species. In the context of the biodiversity crisis, our study emphasizes the importance
of targeting a wide range of pathogens and defining host associations when considering
potential drivers of population decline.'
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- first_name: Dino
full_name: Mcmahon, Dino
last_name: Mcmahon
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Fürst, Matthias
id: 393B1196-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Fürst
orcid: 0000-0002-3712-925X
- first_name: Jesicca
full_name: Caspar, Jesicca
last_name: Caspar
- first_name: Panagiotis
full_name: Theodorou, Panagiotis
last_name: Theodorou
- first_name: Mark
full_name: Brown, Mark
last_name: Brown
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Paxton, Robert
last_name: Paxton
citation:
ama: 'Mcmahon D, Fürst M, Caspar J, Theodorou P, Brown M, Paxton R. Data from: A
sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild
and managed bees. 2016. doi:10.5061/dryad.4b565'
apa: 'Mcmahon, D., Fürst, M., Caspar, J., Theodorou, P., Brown, M., & Paxton,
R. (2016). Data from: A sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple
RNA viruses across wild and managed bees. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4b565'
chicago: 'Mcmahon, Dino, Matthias Fürst, Jesicca Caspar, Panagiotis Theodorou, Mark
Brown, and Robert Paxton. “Data from: A Sting in the Spit: Widespread Cross-Infection
of Multiple RNA Viruses across Wild and Managed Bees.” Dryad, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4b565.'
ieee: 'D. Mcmahon, M. Fürst, J. Caspar, P. Theodorou, M. Brown, and R. Paxton, “Data
from: A sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses
across wild and managed bees.” Dryad, 2016.'
ista: 'Mcmahon D, Fürst M, Caspar J, Theodorou P, Brown M, Paxton R. 2016. Data
from: A sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses
across wild and managed bees, Dryad, 10.5061/dryad.4b565.'
mla: 'Mcmahon, Dino, et al. Data from: A Sting in the Spit: Widespread Cross-Infection
of Multiple RNA Viruses across Wild and Managed Bees. Dryad, 2016, doi:10.5061/dryad.4b565.'
short: D. Mcmahon, M. Fürst, J. Caspar, P. Theodorou, M. Brown, R. Paxton, (2016).
date_created: 2021-07-26T09:14:19Z
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abstract:
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text: Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have contributed significantly to the
current biodiversity crisis, leading to widespread epidemics and population loss.
Owing to genetic variation in pathogen virulence, a complete understanding of
species decline requires the accurate identification and characterization of EIDs.
We explore this issue in the Western honeybee, where increasing mortality of populations
in the Northern Hemisphere has caused major concern. Specifically, we investigate
the importance of genetic identity of the main suspect in mortality, deformed
wing virus (DWV), in driving honeybee loss. Using laboratory experiments and a
systematic field survey, we demonstrate that an emerging DWV genotype (DWV-B)
is more virulent than the established DWV genotype (DWV-A) and is widespread in
the landscape. Furthermore, we show in a simple model that colonies infected with
DWV-B collapse sooner than colonies infected with DWV-A. We also identify potential
for rapid DWV evolution by revealing extensive genome-wide recombination in vivo.
The emergence of DWV-B in naive honeybee populations, including via recombination
with DWV-A, could be of significant ecological and economic importance. Our findings
emphasize that knowledge of pathogen genetic identity and diversity is critical
to understanding drivers of species decline.
acknowledgement: "This work was supported by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture
and Consumer Protection (Germany): Fit Bee project (grant 511-06.01-28-1-71.007-10),
the EU: BeeDoc (grant 244956), iDiv (2013 NGS-Fast Track grant W47004118) and the
Insect Pollinators Initiative (IPI grant BB/I000100/1 and BB/I000151/1). The IPI
is funded jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,
the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Natural Environment
Research Council, the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust, under the Living
with Environmental Change Partnership. We thank A. Abrahams, M. Husemann and A.
Soro\r\nfor support in obtaining\r\nV. destructor\r\n-free honeybees; and BBKA\r\nPresident
D. Aston for access to records of colony overwinter\r\n2011–2012 mortality in the
UK. We also thank the anonymous refe-\r\nrees and Stephen Martin for comments that
led to substantial\r\nimprovement of the manuscript."
article_number: '20160811'
author:
- first_name: Dino
full_name: Mcmahon, Dino
last_name: Mcmahon
- first_name: Myrsini
full_name: Natsopoulou, Myrsini
last_name: Natsopoulou
- first_name: Vincent
full_name: Doublet, Vincent
last_name: Doublet
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Fürst, Matthias
id: 393B1196-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Fürst
orcid: 0000-0002-3712-925X
- first_name: Silvio
full_name: Weging, Silvio
last_name: Weging
- first_name: Mark
full_name: Brown, Mark
last_name: Brown
- first_name: Andreas
full_name: Gogol Döring, Andreas
last_name: Gogol Döring
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Paxton, Robert
last_name: Paxton
citation:
ama: Mcmahon D, Natsopoulou M, Doublet V, et al. Elevated virulence of an emerging
viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society
of London Series B Biological Sciences. 2016;283(1833). doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0811
apa: Mcmahon, D., Natsopoulou, M., Doublet, V., Fürst, M., Weging, S., Brown, M.,
… Paxton, R. (2016). Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver
of honeybee loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological
Sciences. Royal Society, The. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0811
chicago: Mcmahon, Dino, Myrsini Natsopoulou, Vincent Doublet, Matthias Fürst, Silvio
Weging, Mark Brown, Andreas Gogol Döring, and Robert Paxton. “Elevated Virulence
of an Emerging Viral Genotype as a Driver of Honeybee Loss.” Proceedings of
the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. Royal Society, The,
2016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0811.
ieee: D. Mcmahon et al., “Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype
as a driver of honeybee loss,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series
B Biological Sciences, vol. 283, no. 1833. Royal Society, The, 2016.
ista: Mcmahon D, Natsopoulou M, Doublet V, Fürst M, Weging S, Brown M, Gogol Döring
A, Paxton R. 2016. Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver
of honeybee loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological
Sciences. 283(1833), 20160811.
mla: Mcmahon, Dino, et al. “Elevated Virulence of an Emerging Viral Genotype as
a Driver of Honeybee Loss.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series
B Biological Sciences, vol. 283, no. 1833, 20160811, Royal Society, The, 2016,
doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0811.
short: D. Mcmahon, M. Natsopoulou, V. Doublet, M. Fürst, S. Weging, M. Brown, A.
Gogol Döring, R. Paxton, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological
Sciences 283 (2016).
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abstract:
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text: Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have contributed significantly to the
current biodiversity crisis, leading to widespread epidemics and population loss.
Owing to genetic variation in pathogen virulence, a complete understanding of
species decline requires the accurate identification and characterization of EIDs.
We explore this issue in the Western honeybee, where increasing mortality of populations
in the Northern Hemisphere has caused major concern. Specifically, we investigate
the importance of genetic identity of the main suspect in mortality, deformed
wing virus (DWV), in driving honeybee loss. Using laboratory experiments and a
systematic field survey, we demonstrate that an emerging DWV genotype (DWV-B)
is more virulent than the established DWV genotype (DWV-A) and is widespread in
the landscape. Furthermore, we show in a simple model that colonies infected with
DWV-B collapse sooner than colonies infected with DWV-A. We also identify potential
for rapid DWV evolution by revealing extensive genome-wide recombination in vivo.
The emergence of DWV-B in naive honeybee populations, including via recombination
with DWV-A, could be of significant ecological and economic importance. Our findings
emphasize that knowledge of pathogen genetic identity and diversity is critical
to understanding drivers of species decline.
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full_name: Mcmahon, Dino
last_name: Mcmahon
- first_name: Myrsini
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- first_name: Vincent
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- first_name: Matthias
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ama: 'Mcmahon D, Natsopoulou M, Doublet V, et al. Data from: Elevated virulence
of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss. 2016. doi:10.5061/dryad.cq7t1'
apa: 'Mcmahon, D., Natsopoulou, M., Doublet, V., Fürst, M., Weging, S., Brown, M.,
… Paxton, R. (2016). Data from: Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype
as a driver of honeybee loss. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cq7t1'
chicago: 'Mcmahon, Dino, Myrsini Natsopoulou, Vincent Doublet, Matthias Fürst, Silvio
Weging, Mark Brown, Andreas Gogol Döring, and Robert Paxton. “Data from: Elevated
Virulence of an Emerging Viral Genotype as a Driver of Honeybee Loss.” Dryad,
2016. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cq7t1.'
ieee: 'D. Mcmahon et al., “Data from: Elevated virulence of an emerging viral
genotype as a driver of honeybee loss.” Dryad, 2016.'
ista: 'Mcmahon D, Natsopoulou M, Doublet V, Fürst M, Weging S, Brown M, Gogol Döring
A, Paxton R. 2016. Data from: Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype
as a driver of honeybee loss, Dryad, 10.5061/dryad.cq7t1.'
mla: 'Mcmahon, Dino, et al. Data from: Elevated Virulence of an Emerging Viral
Genotype as a Driver of Honeybee Loss. Dryad, 2016, doi:10.5061/dryad.cq7t1.'
short: D. Mcmahon, M. Natsopoulou, V. Doublet, M. Fürst, S. Weging, M. Brown, A.
Gogol Döring, R. Paxton, (2016).
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text: 'Reciprocal coevolution between host and pathogen is widely seen as a major
driver of evolution and biological innovation. Yet, to date, the underlying genetic
mechanisms and associated trait functions that are unique to rapid coevolutionary
change are generally unknown. We here combined experimental evolution of the bacterial
biocontrol agent Bacillus thuringiensis and its nematode host Caenorhabditis elegans
with large-scale phenotyping, whole genome analysis, and functional genetics to
demonstrate the selective benefit of pathogen virulence and the underlying toxin
genes during the adaptation process. We show that: (i) high virulence was specifically
favoured during pathogen–host coevolution rather than pathogen one-sided adaptation
to a nonchanging host or to an environment without host; (ii) the pathogen genotype
BT-679 with known nematocidal toxin genes and high virulence specifically swept
to fixation in all of the independent replicate populations under coevolution
but only some under one-sided adaptation; (iii) high virulence in the BT-679-dominated
populations correlated with elevated copy numbers of the plasmid containing the
nematocidal toxin genes; (iv) loss of virulence in a toxin-plasmid lacking BT-679
isolate was reconstituted by genetic reintroduction or external addition of the
toxins.We conclude that sustained coevolution is distinct from unidirectional
selection in shaping the pathogen''s genome and life history characteristics.
To our knowledge, this study is the first to characterize the pathogen genes involved
in coevolutionary adaptation in an animal host–pathogen interaction system.'
acknowledgement: We are very grateful for funding from the German Science Foundation
(DFG) to HS (SCHU 1415/8, SCHU 1415/9), PR (RO 2994/3), EBB (BO 2544/7), HL (LI
1690/2), AT (TE 976/2), RDS (SCHU 2522/1), JK (KU 1929/4); from the Kiel Excellence
Cluster Inflammation at Interfaces to HS and PR; and from the ISTFELLOW program
(Co-fund Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission) to LM.
author:
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full_name: El Masri, Leila
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last_name: El Masri
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full_name: Branca, Antoine
last_name: Branca
- first_name: Anna
full_name: Sheppard, Anna
last_name: Sheppard
- first_name: Andrei
full_name: Papkou, Andrei
last_name: Papkou
- first_name: David
full_name: Laehnemann, David
last_name: Laehnemann
- first_name: Patrick
full_name: Guenther, Patrick
last_name: Guenther
- first_name: Swantje
full_name: Prahl, Swantje
last_name: Prahl
- first_name: Manja
full_name: Saebelfeld, Manja
last_name: Saebelfeld
- first_name: Jacqueline
full_name: Hollensteiner, Jacqueline
last_name: Hollensteiner
- first_name: Heiko
full_name: Liesegang, Heiko
last_name: Liesegang
- first_name: Elzbieta
full_name: Brzuszkiewicz, Elzbieta
last_name: Brzuszkiewicz
- first_name: Rolf
full_name: Daniel, Rolf
last_name: Daniel
- first_name: Nico
full_name: Michiels, Nico
last_name: Michiels
- first_name: Rebecca
full_name: Schulte, Rebecca
last_name: Schulte
- first_name: Joachim
full_name: Kurtz, Joachim
last_name: Kurtz
- first_name: Philip
full_name: Rosenstiel, Philip
last_name: Rosenstiel
- first_name: Arndt
full_name: Telschow, Arndt
last_name: Telschow
- first_name: Erich
full_name: Bornberg Bauer, Erich
last_name: Bornberg Bauer
- first_name: Hinrich
full_name: Schulenburg, Hinrich
last_name: Schulenburg
citation:
ama: 'El Masri L, Branca A, Sheppard A, et al. Host–pathogen coevolution: The selective
advantage of Bacillus thuringiensis virulence and its cry toxin genes. PLoS
Biology. 2015;13(6):1-30. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002169'
apa: 'El Masri, L., Branca, A., Sheppard, A., Papkou, A., Laehnemann, D., Guenther,
P., … Schulenburg, H. (2015). Host–pathogen coevolution: The selective advantage
of Bacillus thuringiensis virulence and its cry toxin genes. PLoS Biology.
Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002169'
chicago: 'El Masri, Leila, Antoine Branca, Anna Sheppard, Andrei Papkou, David Laehnemann,
Patrick Guenther, Swantje Prahl, et al. “Host–Pathogen Coevolution: The Selective
Advantage of Bacillus Thuringiensis Virulence and Its Cry Toxin Genes.” PLoS
Biology. Public Library of Science, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002169.'
ieee: 'L. El Masri et al., “Host–pathogen coevolution: The selective advantage
of Bacillus thuringiensis virulence and its cry toxin genes,” PLoS Biology,
vol. 13, no. 6. Public Library of Science, pp. 1–30, 2015.'
ista: 'El Masri L, Branca A, Sheppard A, Papkou A, Laehnemann D, Guenther P, Prahl
S, Saebelfeld M, Hollensteiner J, Liesegang H, Brzuszkiewicz E, Daniel R, Michiels
N, Schulte R, Kurtz J, Rosenstiel P, Telschow A, Bornberg Bauer E, Schulenburg
H. 2015. Host–pathogen coevolution: The selective advantage of Bacillus thuringiensis
virulence and its cry toxin genes. PLoS Biology. 13(6), 1–30.'
mla: 'El Masri, Leila, et al. “Host–Pathogen Coevolution: The Selective Advantage
of Bacillus Thuringiensis Virulence and Its Cry Toxin Genes.” PLoS Biology,
vol. 13, no. 6, Public Library of Science, 2015, pp. 1–30, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002169.'
short: L. El Masri, A. Branca, A. Sheppard, A. Papkou, D. Laehnemann, P. Guenther,
S. Prahl, M. Saebelfeld, J. Hollensteiner, H. Liesegang, E. Brzuszkiewicz, R.
Daniel, N. Michiels, R. Schulte, J. Kurtz, P. Rosenstiel, A. Telschow, E. Bornberg
Bauer, H. Schulenburg, PLoS Biology 13 (2015) 1–30.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:52:40Z
date_published: 2015-06-04T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:51:33Z
day: '04'
ddc:
- '570'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002169
ec_funded: 1
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publication: PLoS Biology
publication_status: published
publisher: Public Library of Science
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title: 'Host–pathogen coevolution: The selective advantage of Bacillus thuringiensis
virulence and its cry toxin genes'
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abstract:
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text: Reproduction within a host and transmission to the next host are crucial for
the virulence and fitness of pathogens. Nevertheless, basic knowledge about such
parameters is often missing from the literature, even for well-studied bacteria,
such as Bacillus thuringiensis, an endospore-forming insect pathogen, which infects
its hosts via the oral route. To characterize bacterial replication success, we
made use of an experimental oral infection system for the red flour beetle Tribolium
castaneum and developed a flow cytometric assay for the quantification of both
spore ingestion by the individual beetle larvae and the resulting spore load after
bacterial replication and resporulation within cadavers. On average, spore numbers
increased 460-fold, showing that Bacillus thuringiensis grows and replicates successfully
in insect cadavers. By inoculating cadaver-derived spores and spores from bacterial
stock cultures into nutrient medium, we next investigated outgrowth characteristics
of vegetative cells and found that cadaver- derived bacteria showed reduced growth
compared to bacteria from the stock cultures. Interestingly, this reduced growth
was a consequence of inhibited spore germination, probably originating from the
host and resulting in reduced host mortality in subsequent infections by cadaver-derived
spores. Nevertheless, we further showed that Bacillus thuringiensis transmission
was possible via larval cannibalism when no other food was offered. These results
contribute to our understanding of the ecology of Bacillus thuringiensis as an
insect pathogen.
author:
- first_name: Barbara
full_name: Milutinovic, Barbara
id: 2CDC32B8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Milutinovic
orcid: 0000-0002-8214-4758
- first_name: Christina
full_name: Höfling, Christina
last_name: Höfling
- first_name: Momir
full_name: Futo, Momir
last_name: Futo
- first_name: Jörn
full_name: Scharsack, Jörn
last_name: Scharsack
- first_name: Joachim
full_name: Kurtz, Joachim
last_name: Kurtz
citation:
ama: 'Milutinovic B, Höfling C, Futo M, Scharsack J, Kurtz J. Infection of Tribolium
castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: Quantification of bacterial replication
within cadavers, transmission via cannibalism, and inhibition of spore germination.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2015;81(23):8135-8144. doi:10.1128/AEM.02051-15'
apa: 'Milutinovic, B., Höfling, C., Futo, M., Scharsack, J., & Kurtz, J. (2015).
Infection of Tribolium castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: Quantification of
bacterial replication within cadavers, transmission via cannibalism, and inhibition
of spore germination. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. American
Society for Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02051-15'
chicago: 'Milutinovic, Barbara, Christina Höfling, Momir Futo, Jörn Scharsack, and
Joachim Kurtz. “Infection of Tribolium Castaneum with Bacillus Thuringiensis:
Quantification of Bacterial Replication within Cadavers, Transmission via Cannibalism,
and Inhibition of Spore Germination.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
American Society for Microbiology, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02051-15.'
ieee: 'B. Milutinovic, C. Höfling, M. Futo, J. Scharsack, and J. Kurtz, “Infection
of Tribolium castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: Quantification of bacterial
replication within cadavers, transmission via cannibalism, and inhibition of spore
germination,” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 81, no. 23.
American Society for Microbiology, pp. 8135–8144, 2015.'
ista: 'Milutinovic B, Höfling C, Futo M, Scharsack J, Kurtz J. 2015. Infection of
Tribolium castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: Quantification of bacterial replication
within cadavers, transmission via cannibalism, and inhibition of spore germination.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81(23), 8135–8144.'
mla: 'Milutinovic, Barbara, et al. “Infection of Tribolium Castaneum with Bacillus
Thuringiensis: Quantification of Bacterial Replication within Cadavers, Transmission
via Cannibalism, and Inhibition of Spore Germination.” Applied and Environmental
Microbiology, vol. 81, no. 23, American Society for Microbiology, 2015, pp.
8135–44, doi:10.1128/AEM.02051-15.'
short: B. Milutinovic, C. Höfling, M. Futo, J. Scharsack, J. Kurtz, Applied and
Environmental Microbiology 81 (2015) 8135–8144.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:52:39Z
date_published: 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:51:31Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1128/AEM.02051-15
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language:
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month: '12'
oa: 1
oa_version: Submitted Version
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pmid: 1
publication: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
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publisher: American Society for Microbiology
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status: public
title: 'Infection of Tribolium castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: Quantification
of bacterial replication within cadavers, transmission via cannibalism, and inhibition
of spore germination'
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...
---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: This paper introduces a theme issue presenting the latest developments in
research on the impacts of sociality on health and fitness. The articles that
follow cover research on societies ranging from insects to humans. Variation in
measures of fitness (i.e. survival and reproduction) has been linked to various
aspects of sociality in humans and animals alike, and variability in individual
health and condition has been recognized as a key mediator of these relationships.
Viewed from a broad evolutionary perspective, the evolutionary transitions from
a solitary lifestyle to group living have resulted in several new health-related
costs and benefits of sociality. Social transmission of parasites within groups
represents a major cost of group living, but some behavioural mechanisms, such
as grooming, have evolved repeatedly to reduce this cost. Group living also has
created novel costs in terms of altered susceptibility to infectious and non-infectious
disease as a result of the unavoidable physiological consequences of social competition
and integration, which are partly alleviated by social buffering in some vertebrates.
Here, we define the relevant aspects of sociality, summarize their health-related
costs and benefits, and discuss possible fitness measures in different study systems.
Given the pervasive effects of social factors on health and fitness, we propose
a synthesis of existing conceptual approaches in disease ecology, ecological immunology
and behavioural neurosciences by adding sociality as a key factor, with the goal
to generate a broader framework for organismal integration of health-related research.
acknowledgement: We thank the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Ministry of Science
and Culture of Lower-Saxony (MWK Hannover) and the German Primate Centre (DPZ) for
their support of the 9. Göttinger Freilandtage in 2013, a conference at which most
contributions to this issue were first presented, the referees of the contributions
to this issue for their constructive comments, Meggan Craft for comments, and Helen
Eaton for her support in producing this theme issue.
article_number: '20140116'
author:
- first_name: Peter
full_name: Kappeler, Peter
last_name: Kappeler
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
- first_name: Charles
full_name: Nunn, Charles
last_name: Nunn
citation:
ama: 'Kappeler P, Cremer S, Nunn C. Sociality and health: Impacts of sociality on
disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies. Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences.
2015;370(1669). doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0116'
apa: 'Kappeler, P., Cremer, S., & Nunn, C. (2015). Sociality and health: Impacts
of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological
Sciences. Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0116'
chicago: 'Kappeler, Peter, Sylvia Cremer, and Charles Nunn. “Sociality and Health:
Impacts of Sociality on Disease Susceptibility and Transmission in Animal and
Human Societies.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Series B, Biological Sciences. Royal Society, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0116.'
ieee: 'P. Kappeler, S. Cremer, and C. Nunn, “Sociality and health: Impacts of sociality
on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies,” Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences,
vol. 370, no. 1669. Royal Society, 2015.'
ista: 'Kappeler P, Cremer S, Nunn C. 2015. Sociality and health: Impacts of sociality
on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies. Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370(1669),
20140116.'
mla: 'Kappeler, Peter, et al. “Sociality and Health: Impacts of Sociality on Disease
Susceptibility and Transmission in Animal and Human Societies.” Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences,
vol. 370, no. 1669, 20140116, Royal Society, 2015, doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0116.'
short: P. Kappeler, S. Cremer, C. Nunn, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 370 (2015).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:15Z
date_published: 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:53:29Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0116
external_id:
pmid:
- '25870402'
intvolume: ' 370'
issue: '1669'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
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url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4410382/
month: '05'
oa: 1
oa_version: Submitted Version
pmid: 1
publication: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B,
Biological Sciences
publication_status: published
publisher: Royal Society
publist_id: '5272'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: 1
status: public
title: 'Sociality and health: Impacts of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission
in animal and human societies'
type: journal_article
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volume: 370
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '1850'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Entomopathogenic fungi are potent biocontrol agents that are widely used
against insect pests, many of which are social insects. Nevertheless, theoretical
investigations of their particular life history are scarce. We develop a model
that takes into account the main distinguishing features between traditionally
studied diseases and obligate killing pathogens, like the (biocontrol-relevant)
insect-pathogenic fungi Metarhizium and Beauveria. First, obligate killing entomopathogenic
fungi produce new infectious particles (conidiospores) only after host death and
not yet on the living host. Second, the killing rates of entomopathogenic fungi
depend strongly on the initial exposure dosage, thus we explicitly consider the
pathogen load of individual hosts. Further, we make the model applicable not only
to solitary host species, but also to group living species by incorporating social
interactions between hosts, like the collective disease defences of insect societies.
Our results identify the optimal killing rate for the pathogen that minimises
its invasion threshold. Furthermore, we find that the rate of contact between
hosts has an ambivalent effect: dense interaction networks between individuals
are considered to facilitate disease outbreaks because of increased pathogen transmission.
In social insects, this is compensated by their collective disease defences, i.e.,
social immunity. For the type of pathogens considered here, we show that even
without social immunity, high contact rates between live individuals dilute the
pathogen in the host colony and hence can reduce individual pathogen loads below
disease-causing levels.'
author:
- first_name: Sebastian
full_name: Novak, Sebastian
id: 461468AE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Novak
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
citation:
ama: 'Novak S, Cremer S. Fungal disease dynamics in insect societies: Optimal killing
rates and the ambivalent effect of high social interaction rates. Journal of
Theoretical Biology. 2015;372(5):54-64. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.018'
apa: 'Novak, S., & Cremer, S. (2015). Fungal disease dynamics in insect societies:
Optimal killing rates and the ambivalent effect of high social interaction rates.
Journal of Theoretical Biology. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.018'
chicago: 'Novak, Sebastian, and Sylvia Cremer. “Fungal Disease Dynamics in Insect
Societies: Optimal Killing Rates and the Ambivalent Effect of High Social Interaction
Rates.” Journal of Theoretical Biology. Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.018.'
ieee: 'S. Novak and S. Cremer, “Fungal disease dynamics in insect societies: Optimal
killing rates and the ambivalent effect of high social interaction rates,” Journal
of Theoretical Biology, vol. 372, no. 5. Elsevier, pp. 54–64, 2015.'
ista: 'Novak S, Cremer S. 2015. Fungal disease dynamics in insect societies: Optimal
killing rates and the ambivalent effect of high social interaction rates. Journal
of Theoretical Biology. 372(5), 54–64.'
mla: 'Novak, Sebastian, and Sylvia Cremer. “Fungal Disease Dynamics in Insect Societies:
Optimal Killing Rates and the Ambivalent Effect of High Social Interaction Rates.”
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 372, no. 5, Elsevier, 2015, pp. 54–64,
doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.018.'
short: S. Novak, S. Cremer, Journal of Theoretical Biology 372 (2015) 54–64.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:21Z
date_published: 2015-05-07T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:53:37Z
day: '07'
ddc:
- '576'
department:
- _id: NiBa
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.018
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oa: 1
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project:
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call_identifier: FP7
grant_number: '250152'
name: Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation
- _id: 25DC711C-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: FP7
grant_number: '243071'
name: 'Social Vaccination in Ant Colonies: from Individual Mechanisms to Society
Effects'
publication: Journal of Theoretical Biology
publication_status: published
publisher: Elsevier
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...
---
_id: '1855'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Summary: Declining populations of bee pollinators are a cause of concern,
with major repercussions for biodiversity loss and food security. RNA viruses
associated with honeybees represent a potential threat to other insect pollinators,
but the extent of this threat is poorly understood. This study aims to attain
a detailed understanding of the current and ongoing risk of emerging infectious
disease (EID) transmission between managed and wild pollinator species across
a wide range of RNA viruses. Within a structured large-scale national survey across
26 independent sites, we quantify the prevalence and pathogen loads of multiple
RNA viruses in co-occurring managed honeybee (Apis mellifera) and wild bumblebee
(Bombus spp.) populations. We then construct models that compare virus prevalence
between wild and managed pollinators. Multiple RNA viruses associated with honeybees
are widespread in sympatric wild bumblebee populations. Virus prevalence in honeybees
is a significant predictor of virus prevalence in bumblebees, but we remain cautious
in speculating over the principle direction of pathogen transmission. We demonstrate
species-specific differences in prevalence, indicating significant variation in
disease susceptibility or tolerance. Pathogen loads within individual bumblebees
may be high and in the case of at least one RNA virus, prevalence is higher in
wild bumblebees than in managed honeybee populations. Our findings indicate widespread
transmission of RNA viruses between managed and wild bee pollinators, pointing
to an interconnected network of potential disease pressures within and among pollinator
species. In the context of the biodiversity crisis, our study emphasizes the importance
of targeting a wide range of pathogens and defining host associations when considering
potential drivers of population decline.'
acknowledgement: We thank J.R. de Miranda, L. De Smet and D. de Graaf for supplying
qRT-PCR and MLPA positive controls, respectively, in the form of plasmids. This
work was supported by the Insect Pollinators Initiative (IPI grants BB/1000100/1
and BB/I000151/1). The IPI is funded jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
the Natural Environment Research Council, The Scottish Government and The Wellcome
Trust, under the Living with Environmental Change Partnership.
article_processing_charge: No
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author:
- first_name: Dino
full_name: Mcmahon, Dino
last_name: Mcmahon
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Fürst, Matthias
id: 393B1196-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Fürst
orcid: 0000-0002-3712-925X
- first_name: Jesicca
full_name: Caspar, Jesicca
last_name: Caspar
- first_name: Panagiotis
full_name: Theodorou, Panagiotis
last_name: Theodorou
- first_name: Mark
full_name: Brown, Mark
last_name: Brown
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Paxton, Robert
last_name: Paxton
citation:
ama: 'Mcmahon D, Fürst M, Caspar J, Theodorou P, Brown M, Paxton R. A sting in the
spit: Widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and managed
bees. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2015;84(3):615-624. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12345'
apa: 'Mcmahon, D., Fürst, M., Caspar, J., Theodorou, P., Brown, M., & Paxton,
R. (2015). A sting in the spit: Widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses
across wild and managed bees. Journal of Animal Ecology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12345'
chicago: 'Mcmahon, Dino, Matthias Fürst, Jesicca Caspar, Panagiotis Theodorou, Mark
Brown, and Robert Paxton. “A Sting in the Spit: Widespread Cross-Infection of
Multiple RNA Viruses across Wild and Managed Bees.” Journal of Animal Ecology.
Wiley, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12345.'
ieee: 'D. Mcmahon, M. Fürst, J. Caspar, P. Theodorou, M. Brown, and R. Paxton, “A
sting in the spit: Widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild
and managed bees,” Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 84, no. 3. Wiley, pp.
615–624, 2015.'
ista: 'Mcmahon D, Fürst M, Caspar J, Theodorou P, Brown M, Paxton R. 2015. A sting
in the spit: Widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and
managed bees. Journal of Animal Ecology. 84(3), 615–624.'
mla: 'Mcmahon, Dino, et al. “A Sting in the Spit: Widespread Cross-Infection of
Multiple RNA Viruses across Wild and Managed Bees.” Journal of Animal Ecology,
vol. 84, no. 3, Wiley, 2015, pp. 615–24, doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12345.'
short: D. Mcmahon, M. Fürst, J. Caspar, P. Theodorou, M. Brown, R. Paxton, Journal
of Animal Ecology 84 (2015) 615–624.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:23Z
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date_updated: 2023-02-23T14:06:09Z
day: '03'
ddc:
- '570'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12345
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---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: To prevent epidemics, insect societies have evolved collective disease defences
that are highly effective at curing exposed individuals and limiting disease transmission
to healthy group members. Grooming is an important sanitary behaviour—either performed
towards oneself (self-grooming) or towards others (allogrooming)—to remove infectious
agents from the body surface of exposed individuals, but at the risk of disease
contraction by the groomer. We use garden ants (Lasius neglectus) and the fungal
pathogen Metarhizium as a model system to study how pathogen presence affects
self-grooming and allogrooming between exposed and healthy individuals. We develop
an epidemiological SIS model to explore how experimentally observed grooming patterns
affect disease spread within the colony, thereby providing a direct link between
the expression and direction of sanitary behaviours, and their effects on colony-level
epidemiology. We find that fungus-exposed ants increase self-grooming, while simultaneously
decreasing allogrooming. This behavioural modulation seems universally adaptive
and is predicted to contain disease spread in a great variety of host–pathogen
systems. In contrast, allogrooming directed towards pathogen-exposed individuals
might both increase and decrease disease risk. Our model reveals that the effect
of allogrooming depends on the balance between pathogen infectiousness and efficiency
of social host defences, which are likely to vary across host–pathogen systems.
acknowledgement: We thank Meghan L. Vyleta for the genetical fungal strain characterization
and Eva Sixt for ant drawings, Matthias Konrad for discussion and Christopher D.
Pull, Barbara Casillas-Peréz, Sebastian Novak, as well as three anonymous reviewers
and the theme issue editors Peter Kappeler and Charlie Nunn for valuable comments
on the manuscript.
article_processing_charge: No
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- first_name: Fabian
full_name: Theis, Fabian
last_name: Theis
- first_name: Line V
full_name: Ugelvig, Line V
id: 3DC97C8E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ugelvig
orcid: 0000-0003-1832-8883
- first_name: Carsten
full_name: Marr, Carsten
last_name: Marr
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
citation:
ama: Theis F, Ugelvig LV, Marr C, Cremer S. Opposing effects of allogrooming on
disease transmission in ant societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences. 2015;370(1669). doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0108
apa: Theis, F., Ugelvig, L. V., Marr, C., & Cremer, S. (2015). Opposing effects
of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies. Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. Royal Society,
The. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0108
chicago: Theis, Fabian, Line V Ugelvig, Carsten Marr, and Sylvia Cremer. “Opposing
Effects of Allogrooming on Disease Transmission in Ant Societies.” Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences.
Royal Society, The, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0108.
ieee: F. Theis, L. V. Ugelvig, C. Marr, and S. Cremer, “Opposing effects of allogrooming
on disease transmission in ant societies,” Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, vol. 370, no. 1669.
Royal Society, The, 2015.
ista: Theis F, Ugelvig LV, Marr C, Cremer S. 2015. Opposing effects of allogrooming
on disease transmission in ant societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370(1669).
mla: Theis, Fabian, et al. “Opposing Effects of Allogrooming on Disease Transmission
in Ant Societies.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Series B, Biological Sciences, vol. 370, no. 1669, Royal Society, The, 2015,
doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0108.
short: F. Theis, L.V. Ugelvig, C. Marr, S. Cremer, Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 370 (2015).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:15Z
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text: To prevent epidemics, insect societies have evolved collective disease defences
that are highly effective at curing exposed individuals and limiting disease transmission
to healthy group members. Grooming is an important sanitary behaviour—either performed
towards oneself (self-grooming) or towards others (allogrooming)—to remove infectious
agents from the body surface of exposed individuals, but at the risk of disease
contraction by the groomer. We use garden ants (Lasius neglectus) and the fungal
pathogen Metarhizium as a model system to study how pathogen presence affects
self-grooming and allogrooming between exposed and healthy individuals. We develop
an epidemiological SIS model to explore how experimentally observed grooming patterns
affect disease spread within the colony, thereby providing a direct link between
the expression and direction of sanitary behaviours, and their effects on colony-level
epidemiology. We find that fungus-exposed ants increase self-grooming, while simultaneously
decreasing allogrooming. This behavioural modulation seems universally adaptive
and is predicted to contain disease spread in a great variety of host–pathogen
systems. In contrast, allogrooming directed towards pathogen-exposed individuals
might both increase and decrease disease risk. Our model reveals that the effect
of allogrooming depends on the balance between pathogen infectiousness and efficiency
of social host defences, which are likely to vary across host–pathogen systems.
article_processing_charge: No
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last_name: Theis
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last_name: Ugelvig
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ama: 'Theis F, Ugelvig LV, Marr C, Cremer S. Data from: Opposing effects of allogrooming
on disease transmission in ant societies. 2015. doi:10.5061/dryad.dj2bf'
apa: 'Theis, F., Ugelvig, L. V., Marr, C., & Cremer, S. (2015). Data from: Opposing
effects of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dj2bf'
chicago: 'Theis, Fabian, Line V Ugelvig, Carsten Marr, and Sylvia Cremer. “Data
from: Opposing Effects of Allogrooming on Disease Transmission in Ant Societies.”
Dryad, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dj2bf.'
ieee: 'F. Theis, L. V. Ugelvig, C. Marr, and S. Cremer, “Data from: Opposing effects
of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies.” Dryad, 2015.'
ista: 'Theis F, Ugelvig LV, Marr C, Cremer S. 2015. Data from: Opposing effects
of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies, Dryad, 10.5061/dryad.dj2bf.'
mla: 'Theis, Fabian, et al. Data from: Opposing Effects of Allogrooming on Disease
Transmission in Ant Societies. Dryad, 2015, doi:10.5061/dryad.dj2bf.'
short: F. Theis, L.V. Ugelvig, C. Marr, S. Cremer, (2015).
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text: 'The fitness effects of symbionts on their hosts can be context-dependent,
with usually benign symbionts causing detrimental effects when their hosts are
stressed, or typically parasitic symbionts providing protection towards their
hosts (e.g. against pathogen infection). Here, we studied the novel association
between the invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus and its fungal ectosymbiont Laboulbenia
formicarum for potential costs and benefits. We tested ants with different Laboulbenia
levels for their survival and immunity under resource limitation and exposure
to the obligate killing entomopathogen Metarhizium brunneum. While survival of
L. neglectus workers under starvation was significantly decreased with increasing
Laboulbenia levels, host survival under Metarhizium exposure increased with higher
levels of the ectosymbiont, suggesting a symbiont-mediated anti-pathogen protection,
which seems to be driven mechanistically by both improved sanitary behaviours
and an upregulated immune system. Ants with high Laboulbenia levels showed significantly
longer self-grooming and elevated expression of immune genes relevant for wound
repair and antifungal responses (β-1,3-glucan binding protein, Prophenoloxidase),
compared with ants carrying low Laboulbenia levels. This suggests that the ectosymbiont
Laboulbenia formicarum weakens its ant host by either direct resource exploitation
or the costs of an upregulated behavioural and immunological response, which,
however, provides a prophylactic protection upon later exposure to pathogens. '
acknowledged_ssus:
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acknowledgement: "Funding was obtained by the German Research Foundation (CR 118–2)
and an ERC StG (243071) by the European Research Council (both to S.C.).\r\nWe thank
Line V. Ugelvig for help with ant collection and statistical discussion, Xavier
Espadaler for detailed information on the ant collection site, Birgit Lautenschläger
for the electron microscopy images and Eva Sixt for ant drawings. We further thank
Jørgen Eilenberg for the fungal strain, Meghan L. Vyleta for genetic strain characterization
and immune gene primer development, Paul Schmid-Hempel for discussion, and Line
V. Ugelvig, Xavier Espadaler and Christopher D. Pull for comments on the manuscript.
S.C., M.K. and S.T. conceived the study; M.K. and A.V.G. performed the experiments;
M.K. performed the statistical analysis; S.C. and M.K. wrote the manuscript with
intense contributions of A.V.G. and S.T.; all authors approved the manuscript."
article_number: '20141976'
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author:
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Konrad, Matthias
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last_name: Konrad
- first_name: Anna V
full_name: Grasse, Anna V
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last_name: Grasse
- first_name: Simon
full_name: Tragust, Simon
id: 35A7A418-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Tragust
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
citation:
ama: Konrad M, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Cremer S. Anti-pathogen protection versus survival
costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. 2015;282(1799). doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1976
apa: Konrad, M., Grasse, A. V., Tragust, S., & Cremer, S. (2015). Anti-pathogen
protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. The Royal Society.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1976
chicago: Konrad, Matthias, Anna V Grasse, Simon Tragust, and Sylvia Cremer. “Anti-Pathogen
Protection versus Survival Costs Mediated by an Ectosymbiont in an Ant Host.”
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences.
The Royal Society, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1976.
ieee: M. Konrad, A. V. Grasse, S. Tragust, and S. Cremer, “Anti-pathogen protection
versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host,” Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no.
1799. The Royal Society, 2015.
ista: Konrad M, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Cremer S. 2015. Anti-pathogen protection versus
survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. 282(1799), 20141976.
mla: Konrad, Matthias, et al. “Anti-Pathogen Protection versus Survival Costs Mediated
by an Ectosymbiont in an Ant Host.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
Series B Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1799, 20141976, The Royal Society,
2015, doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1976.
short: M. Konrad, A.V. Grasse, S. Tragust, S. Cremer, Proceedings of the Royal Society
of London Series B Biological Sciences 282 (2015).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:55:06Z
date_published: 2015-01-22T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-23T14:06:41Z
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oa: 1
oa_version: Submitted Version
pmid: 1
project:
- _id: 25DC711C-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
call_identifier: FP7
grant_number: '243071'
name: 'Social Vaccination in Ant Colonies: from Individual Mechanisms to Society
Effects'
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Repeated pathogen exposure is a common threat in colonies of social insects,
posing selection pressures on colony members to respond with improved disease-defense
performance. We here tested whether experience gained by repeated tending of low-level
fungus-exposed (Metarhizium robertsii) larvae may alter the performance of sanitary
brood care in the clonal ant, Platythyrea punctata. We trained ants individually
over nine consecutive trials to either sham-treated or fungus-exposed larvae.
We then compared the larval grooming behavior of naive and trained ants and measured
how effectively they removed infectious fungal conidiospores from the fungus-exposed
larvae. We found that the ants changed the duration of larval grooming in response
to both, larval treatment and their level of experience: (1) sham-treated larvae
received longer grooming than the fungus-exposed larvae and (2) trained ants performed
less self-grooming but longer larval grooming than naive ants, which was true
for both, ants trained to fungus-exposed and also to sham-treated larvae. Ants
that groomed the fungus-exposed larvae for longer periods removed a higher number
of fungal conidiospores from the surface of the fungus-exposed larvae. As experienced
ants performed longer larval grooming, they were more effective in fungal removal,
thus making them better caretakers under pathogen attack of the colony. By studying
this clonal ant, we can thus conclude that even in the absence of genetic variation
between colony members, differences in experience levels of brood care may affect
performance of sanitary brood care in social insects.'
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Claudia
full_name: Westhus, Claudia
last_name: Westhus
- first_name: Line V
full_name: Ugelvig, Line V
id: 3DC97C8E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ugelvig
orcid: 0000-0003-1832-8883
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last_name: Tourdot
- first_name: Jürgen
full_name: Heinze, Jürgen
last_name: Heinze
- first_name: Claudie
full_name: Doums, Claudie
last_name: Doums
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
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last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
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ama: 'Westhus C, Ugelvig LV, Tourdot E, Heinze J, Doums C, Cremer S. Data from:
Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal
ant. 2015. doi:10.5061/dryad.7kc79'
apa: 'Westhus, C., Ugelvig, L. V., Tourdot, E., Heinze, J., Doums, C., & Cremer,
S. (2015). Data from: Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary
benefits in a clonal ant. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7kc79'
chicago: 'Westhus, Claudia, Line V Ugelvig, Edouard Tourdot, Jürgen Heinze, Claudie
Doums, and Sylvia Cremer. “Data from: Increased Grooming after Repeated Brood
Care Provides Sanitary Benefits in a Clonal Ant.” Dryad, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7kc79.'
ieee: 'C. Westhus, L. V. Ugelvig, E. Tourdot, J. Heinze, C. Doums, and S. Cremer,
“Data from: Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits
in a clonal ant.” Dryad, 2015.'
ista: 'Westhus C, Ugelvig LV, Tourdot E, Heinze J, Doums C, Cremer S. 2015. Data
from: Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits
in a clonal ant, Dryad, 10.5061/dryad.7kc79.'
mla: 'Westhus, Claudia, et al. Data from: Increased Grooming after Repeated Brood
Care Provides Sanitary Benefits in a Clonal Ant. Dryad, 2015, doi:10.5061/dryad.7kc79.'
short: C. Westhus, L.V. Ugelvig, E. Tourdot, J. Heinze, C. Doums, S. Cremer, (2015).
date_created: 2021-07-28T08:52:53Z
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abstract:
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text: "The co-evolution of hosts and pathogens is characterized by continuous adaptations
of both parties. Pathogens of social insects need to adapt towards disease defences
at two levels: 1) individual immunity of each colony member consisting of behavioural
defence strategies as well as humoral and cellular immune responses and 2) social
immunity that is collectively performed by all group members comprising behavioural,
physiological and organisational defence strategies.\r\n\r\nTo disentangle the
selection pressure on pathogens by the collective versus individual level of disease
defence in social insects, we performed an evolution experiment using the Argentine
Ant, Linepithema humile, as a host and a mixture of the general insect pathogenic
fungus Metarhizium spp. (6 strains) as a pathogen. We allowed pathogen evolution
over 10 serial host passages to two different evolution host treatments: (1) only
individual host immunity in a single host treatment, and (2) simultaneously acting
individual and social immunity in a social host treatment, in which an exposed
ant was accompanied by two untreated nestmates.\r\n\r\nBefore starting the pathogen
evolution experiment, the 6 Metarhizium spp. strains were characterised concerning
conidiospore size killing rates in singly and socially reared ants, their competitiveness
under coinfecting conditions and their influence on ant behaviour. We analysed
how the ancestral atrain mixture changed in conidiospere size, killing rate and
strain composition dependent on host treatment (single or social hosts) during
10 passages and found that killing rate and conidiospere size of the pathogen
increased under both evolution regimes, but different depending on host treatment.\r\n\r\nTesting
the evolved strain mixtures that evolved under either the single or social host
treatment under both single and social current rearing conditions in a full factorial
design experiment revealed that the additional collective defences in insect societies
add new selection pressure for their coevolving pathogens that compromise their
ability to adapt to its host at the group level. To our knowledge, this is the
first study directly measuring the influence of social immunity on pathogen evolution."
acknowledgement: This work was funded by the DFG and the ERC.
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Thesis
author:
- first_name: Miriam
full_name: Stock, Miriam
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ama: Stock M. Evolution of a fungal pathogen towards individual versus social immunity
in ants. 2014.
apa: Stock, M. (2014). Evolution of a fungal pathogen towards individual versus
social immunity in ants. IST Austria.
chicago: Stock, Miriam. “Evolution of a Fungal Pathogen towards Individual versus
Social Immunity in Ants.” IST Austria, 2014.
ieee: M. Stock, “Evolution of a fungal pathogen towards individual versus social
immunity in ants,” IST Austria, 2014.
ista: Stock M. 2014. Evolution of a fungal pathogen towards individual versus social
immunity in ants. IST Austria.
mla: Stock, Miriam. Evolution of a Fungal Pathogen towards Individual versus
Social Immunity in Ants. IST Austria, 2014.
short: M. Stock, Evolution of a Fungal Pathogen towards Individual versus Social
Immunity in Ants, IST Austria, 2014.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:51:49Z
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last_name: Cremer
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ants
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text: The unprecedented polymorphism in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)
genes is thought to be maintained by balancing selection from parasites. However,
do parasites also drive divergence at MHC loci between host populations, or do
the effects of balancing selection maintain similarities among populations? We
examined MHC variation in populations of the livebearing fish Poecilia mexicana
and characterized their parasite communities. Poecilia mexicana populations in
the Cueva del Azufre system are locally adapted to darkness and the presence of
toxic hydrogen sulphide, representing highly divergent ecotypes or incipient species.
Parasite communities differed significantly across populations, and populations
with higher parasite loads had higher levels of diversity at class II MHC genes.
However, despite different parasite communities, marked divergence in adaptive
traits and in neutral genetic markers, we found MHC alleles to be remarkably similar
among host populations. Our findings indicate that balancing selection from parasites
maintains immunogenetic diversity of hosts, but this process does not promote
MHC divergence in this system. On the contrary, we suggest that balancing selection
on immunogenetic loci may outweigh divergent selection causing divergence, thereby
hindering host divergence and speciation. Our findings support the hypothesis
that balancing selection maintains MHC similarities among lineages during and
after speciation (trans-species evolution).
acknowledgement: This study was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation
(NSF) to MT (IOS-1121832) and IS (DEB-0743406) and from the German Science Foundation
(DFG; PL 470/1-2) and ‘LOEWE − Landesoffensive zur Entwicklung wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer
Exzellenz’ of Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts, to MP.
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- first_name: Michael
full_name: Tobler, Michael
last_name: Tobler
- first_name: Martin
full_name: Plath, Martin
last_name: Plath
- first_name: Rüdiger
full_name: Riesch, Rüdiger
last_name: Riesch
- first_name: Ingo
full_name: Schlupp, Ingo
last_name: Schlupp
- first_name: Anna V
full_name: Grasse, Anna V
id: 406F989C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Grasse
- first_name: Gopi
full_name: Munimanda, Gopi
last_name: Munimanda
- first_name: C
full_name: Setzer, C
last_name: Setzer
- first_name: Dustin
full_name: Penn, Dustin
last_name: Penn
- first_name: Yoshan
full_name: Moodley, Yoshan
last_name: Moodley
citation:
ama: Tobler M, Plath M, Riesch R, et al. Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic
diversity but not divergence among locally adapted host populations. Journal
of Evolutionary Biology. 2014;27(5):960-974. doi:10.1111/jeb.12370
apa: Tobler, M., Plath, M., Riesch, R., Schlupp, I., Grasse, A. V., Munimanda, G.,
… Moodley, Y. (2014). Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic diversity
but not divergence among locally adapted host populations. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12370
chicago: Tobler, Michael, Martin Plath, Rüdiger Riesch, Ingo Schlupp, Anna V Grasse,
Gopi Munimanda, C Setzer, Dustin Penn, and Yoshan Moodley. “Selection from Parasites
Favours Immunogenetic Diversity but Not Divergence among Locally Adapted Host
Populations.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Wiley, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12370.
ieee: M. Tobler et al., “Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic diversity
but not divergence among locally adapted host populations,” Journal of Evolutionary
Biology, vol. 27, no. 5. Wiley, pp. 960–974, 2014.
ista: Tobler M, Plath M, Riesch R, Schlupp I, Grasse AV, Munimanda G, Setzer C,
Penn D, Moodley Y. 2014. Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic diversity
but not divergence among locally adapted host populations. Journal of Evolutionary
Biology. 27(5), 960–974.
mla: Tobler, Michael, et al. “Selection from Parasites Favours Immunogenetic Diversity
but Not Divergence among Locally Adapted Host Populations.” Journal of Evolutionary
Biology, vol. 27, no. 5, Wiley, 2014, pp. 960–74, doi:10.1111/jeb.12370.
short: M. Tobler, M. Plath, R. Riesch, I. Schlupp, A.V. Grasse, G. Munimanda, C.
Setzer, D. Penn, Y. Moodley, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (2014) 960–974.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:38Z
date_published: 2014-04-12T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-06-07T09:22:20Z
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doi: 10.1111/jeb.12370
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- 1010-061X
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publisher: Wiley
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status: public
title: Selection from parasites favours immunogenetic diversity but not divergence
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abstract:
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text: Immune systems are able to protect the body against secondary infection with
the same parasite. In insect colonies, this protection is not restricted to the
level of the individual organism, but also occurs at the societal level. Here,
we review recent evidence for and insights into the mechanisms underlying individual
and social immunisation in insects. We disentangle general immune-protective effects
from specific immune memory (priming), and examine immunisation in the context
of the lifetime of an individual and that of a colony, and of transgenerational
immunisation that benefits offspring. When appropriate, we discuss parallels with
disease defence strategies in human societies. We propose that recurrent parasitic
threats have shaped the evolution of both the individual immune systems and colony-level
social immunity in insects.
acknowledgement: "This work was funded by an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research
Council (to S.C.) and the ISTFELLOW program (Co-fund Marie Curie Actions of the
European Commission; to L.M.).\r\nWe thank Christopher D. Pull, Sophie A.O. Armitage,
Hinrich Schulenburg, Line V. Ugelvig, Matthias Konrad, Matthias Fürst, Miriam Stock,
Barbara Casillas-Perez and three anonymous referees for comments on the manuscript. "
author:
- first_name: Leila
full_name: El Masri, Leila
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last_name: El Masri
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
citation:
ama: El Masri L, Cremer S. Individual and social immunisation in insects. Trends
in Immunology. 2014;35(10):471-482. doi:10.1016/j.it.2014.08.005
apa: El Masri, L., & Cremer, S. (2014). Individual and social immunisation in
insects. Trends in Immunology. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2014.08.005
chicago: El Masri, Leila, and Sylvia Cremer. “Individual and Social Immunisation
in Insects.” Trends in Immunology. Elsevier, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2014.08.005.
ieee: L. El Masri and S. Cremer, “Individual and social immunisation in insects,”
Trends in Immunology, vol. 35, no. 10. Elsevier, pp. 471–482, 2014.
ista: El Masri L, Cremer S. 2014. Individual and social immunisation in insects.
Trends in Immunology. 35(10), 471–482.
mla: El Masri, Leila, and Sylvia Cremer. “Individual and Social Immunisation in
Insects.” Trends in Immunology, vol. 35, no. 10, Elsevier, 2014, pp. 471–82,
doi:10.1016/j.it.2014.08.005.
short: L. El Masri, S. Cremer, Trends in Immunology 35 (2014) 471–482.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:55:07Z
date_published: 2014-10-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:54:35Z
day: '01'
department:
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doi: 10.1016/j.it.2014.08.005
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issue: '10'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '10'
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page: 471 - 482
publication: Trends in Immunology
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quality_controlled: '1'
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title: Individual and social immunisation in insects
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year: '2014'
...
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abstract:
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text: Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) pose a risk to human welfare, both directly
and indirectly, by affecting managed livestock and wildlife that provide valuable
resources and ecosystem services, such as the pollination of crops. Honeybees
(Apis mellifera), the prevailing managed insect crop pollinator, suffer from a
range of emerging and exotic high-impact pathogens, and population maintenance
requires active management by beekeepers to control them. Wild pollinators such
as bumblebees (Bombus spp.) are in global decline, one cause of which may be pathogen
spillover from managed pollinators like honeybees or commercial colonies of bumblebees.
Here we use a combination of infection experiments and landscape-scale field data
to show that honeybee EIDs are indeed widespread infectious agents within the
pollinator assemblage. The prevalence of deformed wing virus (DWV) and the exotic
parasite Nosema ceranae in honeybees and bumblebees is linked; as honeybees have
higher DWV prevalence, and sympatric bumblebees and honeybees are infected by
the same DWV strains, Apis is the likely source of at least one major EID in wild
pollinators. Lessons learned from vertebrates highlight the need for increased
pathogen control in managed bee species to maintain wild pollinators, as declines
in native pollinators may be caused by interspecies pathogen transmission originating
from managed pollinators.
author:
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Fürst, Matthias
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last_name: Fürst
orcid: 0000-0002-3712-925X
- first_name: Dino
full_name: Mcmahon, Dino
last_name: Mcmahon
- first_name: Juliet
full_name: Osborne, Juliet
last_name: Osborne
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Paxton, Robert
last_name: Paxton
- first_name: Mark
full_name: Brown, Mark
last_name: Brown
citation:
ama: Fürst M, Mcmahon D, Osborne J, Paxton R, Brown M. Disease associations between
honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators. Nature. 2014;506(7488):364-366.
doi:10.1038/nature12977
apa: Fürst, M., Mcmahon, D., Osborne, J., Paxton, R., & Brown, M. (2014). Disease
associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators.
Nature. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12977
chicago: Fürst, Matthias, Dino Mcmahon, Juliet Osborne, Robert Paxton, and Mark
Brown. “Disease Associations between Honeybees and Bumblebees as a Threat to Wild
Pollinators.” Nature. Nature Publishing Group, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12977.
ieee: M. Fürst, D. Mcmahon, J. Osborne, R. Paxton, and M. Brown, “Disease associations
between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators,” Nature,
vol. 506, no. 7488. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 364–366, 2014.
ista: Fürst M, Mcmahon D, Osborne J, Paxton R, Brown M. 2014. Disease associations
between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators. Nature. 506(7488),
364–366.
mla: Fürst, Matthias, et al. “Disease Associations between Honeybees and Bumblebees
as a Threat to Wild Pollinators.” Nature, vol. 506, no. 7488, Nature Publishing
Group, 2014, pp. 364–66, doi:10.1038/nature12977.
short: M. Fürst, D. Mcmahon, J. Osborne, R. Paxton, M. Brown, Nature 506 (2014)
364–366.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:29Z
date_published: 2014-02-20T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:56:11Z
day: '20'
department:
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doi: 10.1038/nature12977
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publication_identifier:
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publication_status: published
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title: Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators
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text: Pathogens may gain a fitness advantage through manipulation of the behaviour
of their hosts. Likewise, host behavioural changes can be a defence mechanism,
counteracting the impact of pathogens on host fitness. We apply harmonic radar
technology to characterize the impact of an emerging pathogen - Nosema ceranae
(Microsporidia) - on honeybee (Apis mellifera) flight and orientation performance
in the field. Honeybees are the most important commercial pollinators. Emerging
diseases have been proposed to play a prominent role in colony decline, partly
through sub-lethal behavioural manipulation of their hosts. We found that homing
success was significantly reduced in diseased (65.8%) versus healthy foragers
(92.5%). Although lost bees had significantly reduced continuous flight times
and prolonged resting times, other flight characteristics and navigational abilities
showed no significant difference between infected and non-infected bees. Our results
suggest that infected bees express normal flight characteristics but are constrained
in their homing ability, potentially compromising the colony by reducing its resource
inputs, but also counteracting the intra-colony spread of infection. We provide
the first high-resolution analysis of sub-lethal effects of an emerging disease
on insect flight behaviour. The potential causes and the implications for both
host and parasite are discussed.
acknowledgement: This study was funded jointly by a grant from BBSRC, Defra, NERC,
the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust, under the Insect Pollinators Initiative
(grant numbers BB/I00097/1 and BB/I000100/1). Rothamsted Research is a national
institute of bioscience strategically funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
article_number: e103989
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full_name: Wolf, Stephan
last_name: Wolf
- first_name: Dino
full_name: Mcmahon, Dino
last_name: Mcmahon
- first_name: Ka
full_name: Lim, Ka
last_name: Lim
- first_name: Christopher
full_name: Pull, Christopher
id: 3C7F4840-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Pull
orcid: 0000-0003-1122-3982
- first_name: Suzanne
full_name: Clark, Suzanne
last_name: Clark
- first_name: Robert
full_name: Paxton, Robert
last_name: Paxton
- first_name: Juliet
full_name: Osborne, Juliet
last_name: Osborne
citation:
ama: 'Wolf S, Mcmahon D, Lim K, et al. So near and yet so far: Harmonic radar reveals
reduced homing ability of Nosema infected honeybees. PLoS One. 2014;9(8).
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103989'
apa: 'Wolf, S., Mcmahon, D., Lim, K., Pull, C., Clark, S., Paxton, R., & Osborne,
J. (2014). So near and yet so far: Harmonic radar reveals reduced homing ability
of Nosema infected honeybees. PLoS One. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103989'
chicago: 'Wolf, Stephan, Dino Mcmahon, Ka Lim, Christopher Pull, Suzanne Clark,
Robert Paxton, and Juliet Osborne. “So near and yet so Far: Harmonic Radar Reveals
Reduced Homing Ability of Nosema Infected Honeybees.” PLoS One. Public
Library of Science, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.'
ieee: 'S. Wolf et al., “So near and yet so far: Harmonic radar reveals reduced
homing ability of Nosema infected honeybees,” PLoS One, vol. 9, no. 8.
Public Library of Science, 2014.'
ista: 'Wolf S, Mcmahon D, Lim K, Pull C, Clark S, Paxton R, Osborne J. 2014. So
near and yet so far: Harmonic radar reveals reduced homing ability of Nosema infected
honeybees. PLoS One. 9(8), e103989.'
mla: 'Wolf, Stephan, et al. “So near and yet so Far: Harmonic Radar Reveals Reduced
Homing Ability of Nosema Infected Honeybees.” PLoS One, vol. 9, no. 8,
e103989, Public Library of Science, 2014, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.'
short: S. Wolf, D. Mcmahon, K. Lim, C. Pull, S. Clark, R. Paxton, J. Osborne, PLoS
One 9 (2014).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:55:37Z
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- first_name: Ka
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- first_name: Suzanne
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- first_name: Robert
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- first_name: Juliet
full_name: Osborne, Juliet
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ama: Wolf S, Mcmahon D, Lim K, et al. Supporting information. 2014. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.s003
apa: Wolf, S., Mcmahon, D., Lim, K., Pull, C., Clark, S., Paxton, R., & Osborne,
J. (2014). Supporting information. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.s003
chicago: Wolf, Stephan, Dino Mcmahon, Ka Lim, Christopher Pull, Suzanne Clark, Robert
Paxton, and Juliet Osborne. “Supporting Information.” Public Library of Science,
2014. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.s003.
ieee: S. Wolf et al., “Supporting information.” Public Library of Science,
2014.
ista: Wolf S, Mcmahon D, Lim K, Pull C, Clark S, Paxton R, Osborne J. 2014. Supporting
information, Public Library of Science, 10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.s003.
mla: Wolf, Stephan, et al. Supporting Information. Public Library of Science,
2014, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103989.s003.
short: S. Wolf, D. Mcmahon, K. Lim, C. Pull, S. Clark, R. Paxton, J. Osborne, (2014).
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text: 'Repeated pathogen exposure is a common threat in colonies of social insects,
posing selection pressures on colony members to respond with improved disease-defense
performance. We here tested whether experience gained by repeated tending of low-level
fungus-exposed (Metarhizium robertsii) larvae may alter the performance of sanitary
brood care in the clonal ant, Platythyrea punctata. We trained ants individually
over nine consecutive trials to either sham-treated or fungus-exposed larvae.
We then compared the larval grooming behavior of naive and trained ants and measured
how effectively they removed infectious fungal conidiospores from the fungus-exposed
larvae. We found that the ants changed the duration of larval grooming in response
to both, larval treatment and their level of experience: (1) sham-treated larvae
received longer grooming than the fungus-exposed larvae and (2) trained ants performed
less self-grooming but longer larval grooming than naive ants, which was true
for both, ants trained to fungus-exposed and also to sham-treated larvae. Ants
that groomed the fungus-exposed larvae for longer periods removed a higher number
of fungal conidiospores from the surface of the fungus-exposed larvae. As experienced
ants performed longer larval grooming, they were more effective in fungal removal,
thus making them better caretakers under pathogen attack of the colony. By studying
this clonal ant, we can thus conclude that even in the absence of genetic variation
between colony members, differences in experience levels of brood care may affect
performance of sanitary brood care in social insects.'
acknowledgement: "We thank Katrin Kellner for colony establishment and characterization,
Mike Bidochka for the fungal strain, Meghan Vyleta for fungal strain characterization,
Martina Klatt and Simon Tragust for help in the laboratory, Dimitri Missoh for developing
the software BioLogic, and Mark Brown and Raphaël Jeanson for discussion and help
with data analysis. The study was funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting
Grant to SC; Marie Curie IEF to LVU) and the German Research Foundation DFG (to
SC and to JH), and CW received funding by the doctoral school Diversité du Vivant
(Cotutelle project to CD and SC).\r\n"
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author:
- first_name: Claudia
full_name: Westhus, Claudia
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last_name: Westhus
- first_name: Line V
full_name: Ugelvig, Line V
id: 3DC97C8E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ugelvig
orcid: 0000-0003-1832-8883
- first_name: Edouard
full_name: Tourdot, Edouard
last_name: Tourdot
- first_name: Jürgen
full_name: Heinze, Jürgen
last_name: Heinze
- first_name: Claudie
full_name: Doums, Claudie
last_name: Doums
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
citation:
ama: Westhus C, Ugelvig LV, Tourdot E, Heinze J, Doums C, Cremer S. Increased grooming
after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal ant. Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology. 2014;68(10):1701-1710. doi:10.1007/s00265-014-1778-8
apa: Westhus, C., Ugelvig, L. V., Tourdot, E., Heinze, J., Doums, C., & Cremer,
S. (2014). Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits
in a clonal ant. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1778-8
chicago: Westhus, Claudia, Line V Ugelvig, Edouard Tourdot, Jürgen Heinze, Claudie
Doums, and Sylvia Cremer. “Increased Grooming after Repeated Brood Care Provides
Sanitary Benefits in a Clonal Ant.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Springer, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1778-8.
ieee: C. Westhus, L. V. Ugelvig, E. Tourdot, J. Heinze, C. Doums, and S. Cremer,
“Increased grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a
clonal ant,” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 68, no. 10. Springer,
pp. 1701–1710, 2014.
ista: Westhus C, Ugelvig LV, Tourdot E, Heinze J, Doums C, Cremer S. 2014. Increased
grooming after repeated brood care provides sanitary benefits in a clonal ant.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68(10), 1701–1710.
mla: Westhus, Claudia, et al. “Increased Grooming after Repeated Brood Care Provides
Sanitary Benefits in a Clonal Ant.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,
vol. 68, no. 10, Springer, 2014, pp. 1701–10, doi:10.1007/s00265-014-1778-8.
short: C. Westhus, L.V. Ugelvig, E. Tourdot, J. Heinze, C. Doums, S. Cremer, Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology 68 (2014) 1701–1710.
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call_identifier: FP7
grant_number: '243071'
name: 'Social Vaccination in Ant Colonies: from Individual Mechanisms to Society
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year: '2014'
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The fitness effects of symbionts on their hosts can be context-dependent,
with usually benign symbionts causing detrimental effects when their hosts are
stressed, or typically parasitic symbionts providing protection towards their
hosts (e.g. against pathogen infection). Here, we studied the novel association
between the invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus and its fungal ectosymbiont Laboulbenia
formicarum for potential costs and benefits. We tested ants with different Laboulbenia
levels for their survival and immunity under resource limitation and exposure
to the obligate killing entomopathogen Metarhizium brunneum. While survival of
L. neglectus workers under starvation was significantly decreased with increasing
Laboulbenia levels, host survival under Metarhizium exposure increased with higher
levels of the ectosymbiont, suggesting a symbiont-mediated anti-pathogen protection,
which seems to be driven mechanistically by both improved sanitary behaviours
and an upregulated immune system. Ants with high Laboulbenia levels showed significantly
longer self-grooming and elevated expression of immune genes relevant for wound
repair and antifungal responses (β-1,3-glucan binding protein, Prophenoloxidase),
compared with ants carrying low Laboulbenia levels. This suggests that the ectosymbiont
Laboulbenia formicarum weakens its ant host by either direct resource exploitation
or the costs of an upregulated behavioural and immunological response, which,
however, provides a prophylactic protection upon later exposure to pathogens.
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author:
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Konrad, Matthias
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last_name: Konrad
- first_name: Anna V
full_name: Grasse, Anna V
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last_name: Grasse
- first_name: Simon
full_name: Tragust, Simon
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last_name: Tragust
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
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last_name: Cremer
orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
citation:
ama: 'Konrad M, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Cremer S. Data from: Anti-pathogen protection
versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. 2014. doi:10.5061/dryad.vm0vc'
apa: 'Konrad, M., Grasse, A. V., Tragust, S., & Cremer, S. (2014). Data from:
Anti-pathogen protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in
an ant host. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vm0vc'
chicago: 'Konrad, Matthias, Anna V Grasse, Simon Tragust, and Sylvia Cremer. “Data
from: Anti-Pathogen Protection versus Survival Costs Mediated by an Ectosymbiont
in an Ant Host.” Dryad, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vm0vc.'
ieee: 'M. Konrad, A. V. Grasse, S. Tragust, and S. Cremer, “Data from: Anti-pathogen
protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host.”
Dryad, 2014.'
ista: 'Konrad M, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Cremer S. 2014. Data from: Anti-pathogen
protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host, Dryad,
10.5061/dryad.vm0vc.'
mla: 'Konrad, Matthias, et al. Data from: Anti-Pathogen Protection versus Survival
Costs Mediated by an Ectosymbiont in an Ant Host. Dryad, 2014, doi:10.5061/dryad.vm0vc.'
short: M. Konrad, A.V. Grasse, S. Tragust, S. Cremer, (2014).
date_created: 2021-07-28T08:38:40Z
date_published: 2014-11-13T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-23T10:23:32Z
day: '13'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.5061/dryad.vm0vc
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month: '11'
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title: 'Data from: Anti-pathogen protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont
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_id: '9753'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Background: The brood of ants and other social insects is highly susceptible
to pathogens, particularly those that penetrate the soft larval and pupal cuticle.
We here test whether the presence of a pupal cocoon, which occurs in some ant
species but not in others, affects the sanitary brood care and fungal infection
patterns after exposure to the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum. We
use a) a comparative approach analysing four species with either naked or cocooned
pupae and b) a within-species analysis of a single ant species, in which both
pupal types co-exist in the same colony. Results: We found that the presence of
a cocoon did not compromise fungal pathogen detection by the ants and that species
with cocooned pupae increased brood grooming after pathogen exposure. All tested
ant species further removed brood from their nests, which was predominantly expressed
towards larvae and naked pupae treated with the live fungal pathogen. In contrast,
cocooned pupae exposed to live fungus were not removed at higher rates than cocooned
pupae exposed to dead fungus or a sham control. Consistent with this, exposure
to the live fungus caused high numbers of infections and fungal outgrowth in larvae
and naked pupae, but not in cocooned pupae. Moreover, the ants consistently removed
the brood prior to fungal outgrowth, ensuring a clean brood chamber. Conclusion:
Our study suggests that the pupal cocoon has a protective effect against fungal
infection, causing an adaptive change in sanitary behaviours by the ants. It further
demonstrates that brood removal - originally described for honeybees as “hygienic
behaviour” – is a widespread sanitary behaviour in ants, which likely has important
implications on disease dynamics in social insect colonies.'
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author:
- first_name: Simon
full_name: Tragust, Simon
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last_name: Tragust
- first_name: Line V
full_name: Ugelvig, Line V
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last_name: Ugelvig
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- first_name: Michel
full_name: Chapuisat, Michel
last_name: Chapuisat
- first_name: Jürgen
full_name: Heinze, Jürgen
last_name: Heinze
- first_name: Sylvia
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia
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last_name: Cremer
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citation:
ama: 'Tragust S, Ugelvig LV, Chapuisat M, Heinze J, Cremer S. Data from: Pupal cocoons
affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies. 2014.
doi:10.5061/dryad.nc0gc'
apa: 'Tragust, S., Ugelvig, L. V., Chapuisat, M., Heinze, J., & Cremer, S. (2014).
Data from: Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections
in ant colonies. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nc0gc'
chicago: 'Tragust, Simon, Line V Ugelvig, Michel Chapuisat, Jürgen Heinze, and Sylvia
Cremer. “Data from: Pupal Cocoons Affect Sanitary Brood Care and Limit Fungal
Infections in Ant Colonies.” Dryad, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nc0gc.'
ieee: 'S. Tragust, L. V. Ugelvig, M. Chapuisat, J. Heinze, and S. Cremer, “Data
from: Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in
ant colonies.” Dryad, 2014.'
ista: 'Tragust S, Ugelvig LV, Chapuisat M, Heinze J, Cremer S. 2014. Data from:
Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies,
Dryad, 10.5061/dryad.nc0gc.'
mla: 'Tragust, Simon, et al. Data from: Pupal Cocoons Affect Sanitary Brood Care
and Limit Fungal Infections in Ant Colonies. Dryad, 2014, doi:10.5061/dryad.nc0gc.'
short: S. Tragust, L.V. Ugelvig, M. Chapuisat, J. Heinze, S. Cremer, (2014).
date_created: 2021-07-30T08:24:11Z
date_published: 2014-10-08T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-23T10:36:17Z
day: '08'
department:
- _id: SyCr
doi: 10.5061/dryad.nc0gc
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month: '10'
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year: '2014'
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---
_id: '1395'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: In this thesis I studied various individual and social immune defences employed
by the invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus mostly against entomopathogenic fungi. The
first two chapters of this thesis address the phenomenon of 'social immunisation'.
Social immunisation, that is the immunological protection of group members due
to social contact to a pathogen-exposed nestmate, has been described in various
social insect species against different types of pathogens. However, in the case
of entomopathogenic fungi it has, so far, only been demonstrated that social immunisation
exists at all. Its underlying mechanisms r any other properties were, however,
unknown. In the first chapter of this thesis I identified the mechanistic basis
of social immunisation in L. neglectus against the entomopathogenous fungus Metarhizium.
I could show that nestmates of a pathogen-exposed individual contract low-level
infections due to social interactions. These low-level infections are, however,
non-lethal and cause an active stimulation of the immune system, which protects
the nestmates upon subsequent pathogen encounters. In the second chapter of this
thesis I investigated the specificity and colony level effects of social immunisation.
I demonstrated that the protection conferred by social immunisation is highly
specific, protecting ants only against the same pathogen strain. In addition,
depending on the respective context, social immunisation may even cause fitness
costs. I further showed that social immunisation crucially affects sanitary behaviour
and disease dynamics within ant groups. In the third chapter of this thesis I
studied the effects of the ectosymbiotic fungus Laboulbenia formicarum on its
host L. neglectus. Although Laboulbeniales are the largest order of insect-parasitic
fungi, research concerning host fitness consequence is sparse. I showed that highly
Laboulbenia-infected ants sustain fitness costs under resource limitation, however,
gain fitness benefits when exposed to an entomopathogenus fungus. These effects
are probably cause by a prophylactic upregulation of behavioural as well as physiological
immune defences in highly infected ants.
alternative_title:
- ISTA Thesis
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author:
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Konrad, Matthias
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last_name: Konrad
citation:
ama: 'Konrad M. Immune defences in ants: Effects of social immunisation and a fungal
ectosymbiont in the ant Lasius neglectus. 2014.'
apa: 'Konrad, M. (2014). Immune defences in ants: Effects of social immunisation
and a fungal ectosymbiont in the ant Lasius neglectus. Institute of Science
and Technology Austria.'
chicago: 'Konrad, Matthias. “Immune Defences in Ants: Effects of Social Immunisation
and a Fungal Ectosymbiont in the Ant Lasius Neglectus.” Institute of Science and
Technology Austria, 2014.'
ieee: 'M. Konrad, “Immune defences in ants: Effects of social immunisation and a
fungal ectosymbiont in the ant Lasius neglectus,” Institute of Science and Technology
Austria, 2014.'
ista: 'Konrad M. 2014. Immune defences in ants: Effects of social immunisation and
a fungal ectosymbiont in the ant Lasius neglectus. Institute of Science and Technology
Austria.'
mla: 'Konrad, Matthias. Immune Defences in Ants: Effects of Social Immunisation
and a Fungal Ectosymbiont in the Ant Lasius Neglectus. Institute of Science
and Technology Austria, 2014.'
short: 'M. Konrad, Immune Defences in Ants: Effects of Social Immunisation and a
Fungal Ectosymbiont in the Ant Lasius Neglectus, Institute of Science and Technology
Austria, 2014.'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:51:46Z
date_published: 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-07T11:38:56Z
day: '01'
degree_awarded: PhD
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- _id: SyCr
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- iso: eng
month: '02'
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publication_identifier:
issn:
- 2663-337X
publication_status: published
publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria
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supervisor:
- first_name: Sylvia M
full_name: Cremer, Sylvia M
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last_name: Cremer
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title: 'Immune defences in ants: Effects of social immunisation and a fungal ectosymbiont
in the ant Lasius neglectus'
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