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Multi-scale characterization of symbiont diversity in the pea aphid complex through metagenomic approaches

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Most metazoans are involved in durable symbiotic relationships with microbes which can take several forms, from mutualism to parasitism. The advances of NGS technologies and bioinformatics tools have opened new opportunities to shed light on this hidden but very influential diversity. The pea aphid is a model insect system for symbiont studies. It harbors both an obligatory symbiont supplying key nutrients and several facultative symbionts bringing some novel functions to the host, such as protection against natural enemies and thermal stress. The pea aphid is organized in a complex of biotypes, each adapted to a specific host plant of the legume family and having its own symbiont composition. Yet, the metagenomic diversity of the biotype-associated symbiotic community is still largely unknown. In particular, little is known on how the symbiotic genomic diversity is structured at different scales: across host biotypes, amongst individuals of the same biotype, or within individual aphids. We used high throughput whole genome metagenomic sequencing to characterize with a fine resolution the metagenomic diversity of both individual resequenced aphids and biotype specific pooled aphids. By a reference genome mapping approach, we first assessed the taxonomic diversity of the samples and built symbiont specific read sets. We then performed a genome-wide SNP-calling, to examine the differences in bacterial strains between samples. Our results revealed different diversity patterns at the three considered scales for the pea aphid symbionts. At the inter-biotype and intra-biotype scales, the primary symbiont Buchnera and some secondary symbionts such as Serratia showed a biotype specific diversity. We showed evidence for horizontal transfer of a Hamiltonella strain between biotypes, and found two distinct strains of Regiella symbionts within some biotypes. At the finest intra-host diversity scale, we also showed that these two strains of Regiella may coexist inside the same aphid host. This study highlights the huge potential of bioinformatics analyses of metagenomic dataset in exploring microbiote diversity in relation with host variation.
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hal-01638884 , version 1 (20-11-2017)

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Cervin Guyomar, Fabrice Legeai, Christophe Mougel, Claire Lemaitre, Jean-Christophe Simon. Multi-scale characterization of symbiont diversity in the pea aphid complex through metagenomic approaches. JOBIM 2017 - Journées Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques, Jul 2017, Lille, France. ⟨hal-01638884⟩
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