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Comparative Analysis of Microbial Diversity in Longitarsus flea Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Genetica (2011) 139:541–550 DOI 10.1007/s10709-010-9498-0 SI - GOS Comparative analysis of microbial diversity in Longitarsus flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Scott T. Kelley • Susanne Dobler Received: 30 April 2010 / Accepted: 4 September 2010 / Published online: 16 September 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Abstract Herbivorous beetles comprise a significant our data suggest that environmental factors play a domi- fraction of eukaryotic biodiversity and their plant-feeding nant role in shaping Longitarsus MCD and that the root- adaptations make them notorious agricultural pests. feeding beetle larvae of these insects are inoculated by soil Despite more than a century of research on their ecology rhizosphere microbes. Future studies will investigate MCD and evolution, we know little about the diversity and of select Longitarsus species across their geographic ranges function of their symbiotic microbial communities. Recent and explore the connection between the soil rhizosphere culture-independent molecular studies have shown that and the beetle MCD. insects possess diverse gut microbial communities that appear critical for their survival. In this study, we com- Keywords 16S rRNA Á Bacteria Á Biodiversity Á bined culture-independent methods and high-throughput Herbivory Á Metagenomics Á Microbial ecology Á sequencing strategies to perform a comparative analysis of Phylogeny Longitarsus flea-beetles microbial community diversity (MCD). This genus of beetle herbivores contains host plant specialists and generalists that feed on a diverse array of Introduction toxic plants. Using a deep-sequencing approach, we char- acterized the MCD of eleven Longitarsus species across the Herbivorous beetles comprise one of the most abundant genus, several of which represented independent shifts to groups of multi-cellular organisms on the planet and con- the same host plant families. Database comparisons found tribute significantly to overall biodiversity (Erwin 1982; that Longitarsus-associated microbes came from two hab- Novotny et al. 2006). Their plant-feeding habits are asso- itat types: insect guts and the soil rhizosphere. Statistical ciated with fascinating behavioral and physiological clustering of the Longitarsus microbial communities found adaptations (Bernays and Chapman 1994), which can also little correlation with the beetle phylogeny, and uncovered make them devastating pests of agricultural and forestry discrepancies between bacterial communities extracted crops (Haubruge and Arnaud 2001; Paine et al. 1997; directly from beetles and those from frass. A Principal Sexson and Wyman 2005; Wood 1982). The evolutionary Coordinates Analysis also found some correspondence radiation of herbivorous beetles coincided with the diver- between beetle MCD and host plant family. Collectively, sification of terrestrial plants and appears to have been influenced by the evolution of plant secondary compounds (Farrell 1998; Farrell and Mitter 1998; Futuyma and & S. T. Kelley ( ) Scheffer 1993; Mitter et al. 1988). Over time, many beetle Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, USA herbivores became highly specialized in their diets, feeding e-mail: [email protected] on a small number of related plants (Bernays and Graham 1988; Mitter et al. 1988; Mitter and Futuyma 1991). This S. Dobler degree of specialization appears to have had dramatic Institute of Zoology, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany macroevolutionary consequences, accelerating rates of e-mail: [email protected] speciation and often restricting evolutionary host-shifts to 123 542 Genetica (2011) 139:541–550 related or chemically similar plants (Dobler and Farrell et al. (2004) used culture-independent methods to show that 1999; Ehrlich and Raven 1964; Farrell 1998; Futuyma and host plants had a dramatic effect on the insect gut microbial Moreno 1988; Futuyma and Scheffer 1993; Kelley and community diversity (MCD). Collectively, these studies of Farrell 1998). insects suggest that highly diverse gut microbial communi- Although numerous studies have investigated the ties are involved in the adaptation of herbivores to host molecular and physiological adaptations of insect herbi- plants. However, the precise nature of insect-microbial vores to host plant secondary compounds, very little is interactions and how they might affect insect herbivore known about the role gut microbial symbionts may play in evolution, remains little understood. this process. This is largely because of the difficulties In this study, we use the flea-beetle genus Longitarsus inherent in culturing microbes from environmental sam- (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) as a model system for ples, including animal host tissues. Studies of environ- studying the relationship of herbivorous beetle-associated mental microbial communities have estimated that we have MCD to host plant utilization and specialization. Long- cultured less than one percent of the true microbial itarsus flea-beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) comprise diversity (Amann et al. 1995; Harris et al. 2004; a morphologically well-defined group of species distributed Hugenholtz et al. 1998a; Hugenholtz and Pace 1996; Pace primarily in Eurasia and North Africa (Palearctic). Evolu- 1997). However, the development of culture-independent tionary patterns of Longitarsus host plant utilization and molecular techniques, based primarily on PCR and host plant secondary chemistry have been extensively molecular cloning of small subunit (16S) ribosomal RNA analyzed in the context of their phylogenetic relationships gene sequences (Amann et al. 1995; Hugenholtz et al. (Dobler 2001; Narberhaus et al. 2003; Willinger and Do- 1998a;Paceetal. 1985), has revolutionized our ability to bler 2001). Most of the Longitarsus species have a host study previously uncultured microbes in an enormous range restricted to a few closely related plant species, with range of environments, such as rainforest soils (Rondon a few host plant family ‘‘generalists’’. However, the genus et al. 1999), geothermal springs (Hugenholtz et al. 1998b), as a whole uses plants from many different families, saturated salt pools (Ley et al. 2006a), and animal intes- including the Asteraceae, Boraginaceae, Lamiaceae, and tines (Andersson et al. 2008; Backhed et al. 2005; Suh et al. Scrophulariaceae. The overall wealth of evolutionary and 2005). Not only are researchers discovering vast numbers ecological information on Longitarsus enables the use of of novel microorganisms, orders of magnitude more than the comparative method to identify multiple independent previously thought (Lozupone and Knight 2007; Pace shifts to plants with similar secondary chemistry, as well as 1997; Rondon et al. 1999; Tringe and Hugenholtz 2008; many sister-species phylogenetic controls (Dobler 2001). Tringe et al. 2005; Warnecke et al. 2007), we are also The primary goal of this preliminary study was to discovering the critical roles microbes play in virtually characterize Longitarsus MCD in the context of their every ecological setting. For instance, a steadily growing phylogenetic relationships. While the majority of host- list of culture-independent and metagenomic studies have associated microbial community studies focus on a single shown that animals harbor extremely complex communi- animal species, we used a parallel-tagged deep-sequencing ties of microorganisms (aka., ‘‘microbiota’’) (Ley et al. approach (Sogin et al. 2006) to survey multiple species 2005; McKenna et al. 2008; Safaee et al. 2006; Suh et al. across the genus. Specifically, we investigated the MCD of 2005; Warnecke et al. 2007). These gut microbes are eleven different Longitarsus species feeding on members critical for proper nutrition, immunity and development of different host plant families (Table 1) that were col- (Haverson et al. 2007; Ley et al. 2008; Rhee et al. 2004; lected from locales across Germany. After obtaining the Visotto et al. 2009; Warnecke et al. 2007). sequence data, we used rarefaction analysis and database Culture-independent studies of microbial communities matching to determine the number and types of bacteria associated with insects, including ants (Van Borm et al. that tend to comprise Longitarsus microbial communities. 2002), beetles (Delalibera et al. 2005; Suh et al. 2005), moths We then used phylogenetically-based statistical methods to (Broderick et al. 2004), termites (Warnecke et al. 2007), and determine whether the microbial communities of related flies (Behar et al. 2008b) have also discovered complex Longitarsus species tended to be more similar in their microbiota that appear to affect insect ecological adaptation. microbial diversity than unrelated species. A high degree of Recent studies of the Mediterranean fruit fly and the gypsy similarity in the MCD of related Longitarsus species, moth have shown that complex microbial communities can regardless of host plant, would indicate that the beetle host play important roles in the adaptation of insects to plant plays an important role in determining the MCD. Alter- feeding. Female Med-flies vertically transfer bacteria during natively, there may be little relationship between the beetle oviposition and these bacteria express enzymes that start the phylogeny and MCD, suggesting that other factors, such as fruit rotting process and allow the larvae to feed and grow in diet or host plant chemistry, may play a stronger role in the fruit (Behar 2005, 2008a,
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