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Hidden Diversity of Nycteribiidae (Diptera) Bat Flies from The Hidden diversity of Nycteribiidae (Diptera) bat flies from the Malagasy region and insights on host-parasite interactions Beza Ramasindrazana, Steven Goodman, Yann Gomard, Carl Dick, Pablo Tortosa To cite this version: Beza Ramasindrazana, Steven Goodman, Yann Gomard, Carl Dick, Pablo Tortosa. Hidden diversity of Nycteribiidae (Diptera) bat flies from the Malagasy region and insights on host-parasite interactions. Parasites and Vectors, BioMed Central, 2017, 10 (1), 10.1186/s13071-017-2582-x. hal-01689702 HAL Id: hal-01689702 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01689702 Submitted on 22 Jan 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Ramasindrazana et al. Parasites & Vectors (2017) 10:630 DOI 10.1186/s13071-017-2582-x SHORT REPORT Open Access Hidden diversity of Nycteribiidae (Diptera) bat flies from the Malagasy region and insights on host-parasite interactions Beza Ramasindrazana1,2,3,4*, Steven M. Goodman3,5, Yann Gomard1,2, Carl W. Dick5,6 and Pablo Tortosa1,2 Abstract Background: We present information on Nycteribiidae flies parasitizing the bat families Pteropodidae, Miniopteridae and Vespertilionidae from the Malagasy Region, contributing insight into their diversity and host preference. Results: Our phylogenetic analysis identified nine clusters of nycteribiid bat flies on Madagascar and the neighbouring Comoros Archipelago. Bat flies sampled from frugivorous bats of the family Pteropodidae are monoxenous: Eucampsipoda madagascariensis, E. theodori and Cyclopodia dubia appear wholly restricted to Rousettus madagascariensis, R. obliviosus and Eidolon dupreanum,respectively.Twodifferenthostpreferencepatternsoccurred in nycteribiids infecting insectivorous bats. Flies parasitizing bats of the genera Miniopterus (Miniopteridae) and Myotis (Vespertilionidae), namely Penicillidia leptothrinax, Penicillidia sp. and Nycteribia stylidiopsis,arepolyxenousandshowedlittlehostpreference,whilethoseparasitizingthe genera Pipistrellus and Scotophilus (both Vespertilionidae) and referable to Basilia spp., are monoxenous. Lastly, the inferred Bayesian phylogeny revealed that the genus Basilia,ascurrentlyconfigured,isparaphyletic. Conclusion: This study provides new information on the differentiation of nycteribiid taxa, including undescribed species. Host preference is either strict as exemplified by flies parasitizing fruit bats, or more relaxed as found on some insectivorous bat species, possibly because of roost site sharing. Detailed taxonomic work is needed to address three undescribed nycteribiid taxa found on Pipistrellus and Scotophilus, tentatively allocated to the genus Basilia, but possibly warranting different generic allocation. Keywords: Basilia, cox1, Cyclopodia, Nycteribiidae, Bat flies, Madagascar, Comoros, Archipelago Background parasites, including flies of the family Nycteribiidae [6, 7]. Information on bat diversity in the Malagasy Region Nycteribiids are wingless pupiparous Diptera known to (Madagascar and Comoros Archipelago) has increased infest species of the bat suborders Yinpterochiroptera and considerably in recent decades with the description of Yangochiroptera [8]. Due to their obligatory parasitic life- several species new to science. Currently, 49 distinct bat style, nycteribiids live near their hosts, and different life species have been reported in this region, of which about history traits of bats presumably influence the ecology of 80% are endemic [1–4]. These investigations, which these ectoparasites. Finally, the obligatory blood-feeding included new field collections of bats and their ectopara- behaviour of nycteribiid flies may be important in struc- sites, have substantially clarified the taxonomy of the turing the diversity of associated bat microorganisms of regional bat fauna and improved previously available possible medical importance [9, 10]. information [5] on the diversity and ecology of bat On Madagascar, previous studies of nycteribiid diversity [5, 11], along with molecular data [12], have provided an overview of host preference and aspects of their evolution- * Correspondence: [email protected] 1Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les maladies émergentes dans l’Océan ary history. The latter study revealed different patterns of Indien, Plateforme technologique CYROI, Sainte Clotilde, La Réunion, France host preference in five nycteribiid taxa, including Eucampsi- 2Université de La Réunion, CNRS 9192, INSERM U1187, IRD 249, Unité Mixte poda madagascarensis and E. theodori known only from Processus Infectieux en Milieu Insulaire Tropical (PIMIT), Plateforme Technologique CYROI, Sainte-Clotilde, La Réunion, France frugivorous bats, specifically Rousettus madagascariensis Full list of author information is available at the end of the article (Pteropodidae, Yinpterochiroptera) on Madagascar and R. © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Ramasindrazana et al. Parasites & Vectors (2017) 10:630 Page 2 of 8 obliviosus in the Comoros, respectively [12]. Further, this model was based on Akaike Information Criterion as study suggested little host preference associated with determined by jModelTest 2.1.3 [18, 19]. Subsequently, Nycteribia stylidiopsis, Penicillidia sp. and P. leptothrinax the Bayesian inference was conducted using MrBayes occurring on insectivorous bats of the genus Miniopterus 3.1.2. [20]. This analysis consisted of two independent (Miniopteridae, Yangochiroptera). In addition to these taxa runs of four incremental Metropolis-Coupled Markov and based on specimens collected on Madagascar, Theodor Chain Monte Carlo (MC3) iterations starting from a [5] previously reported the presence of Cyclopodia dubia random tree. MC3 was calculated for 5,000,000 genera- on Eidolon dupreanum (Pteropodidae), Basilia (Paracyclopo- tions with trees and associated model parameters dia) madagascarensis on Scotophilus borbonicus (probably sampled every 500 generations. Further, pairwise genetic syn. of S. robustus, see below) (Vespertilionidae, Yangochir- distances between sequences were calculated using the optera) and Penicillidia decipiens (host not identified). Kimura 2-parameter model [21] with bootstrapped repli- We present additional molecular data regarding bat cates using MEGA 6.0 software [22]. flies parasitizing Eidolon dupreanum, as well as insectiv- orous Malagasy bats of the family Vespertilionidae, Host-parasite coevolution specifically Myotis goudoti, Scotophilus robustus, S. We used ParaFit to test potential host-parasite coevolu- marovaza and Pipistrellus cf. hesperidus. These data tion between nycteribiid flies and bat host species; the provide new insights into nycteribiid diversity and evolu- null hypothesis was that evolution of hosts (bats) and tionary history, and may be applicable to studies on the parasites (nycteribiids) are independent [23]. As only a epidemiology of bat fly associated pathogens. single sequence per lineage can be used as input in Par- aFit, one consensus sequence was generated using the Methods software Geneious for the well-supported clade of each Sample collection and morphological characterization parasite and available cox1 (658 bp) sequences. Because Nycteribiid specimens used in the present study were of major taxonomic revisions of Malagasy bats during obtained during field inventories of bats conducted for the past decade, especially within the genus Miniopterus, different research projects [12–16]. Bat ectoparasite we used only one recent sequence of cytochrome b collection methods, as well as their morphological iden- (1047 bp) downloaded from GenBank for each bat host tification, generally follow previous publications [5, 12]. species. Phylogenies were generated using PhyML imple- For bat flies collected on Eidolon dupreanum, Pipistrel- mented in Seaview version 4 [24] and with 1000 repli- lus cf. hesperidus, Scotophilus marovaza and S. robustus, cates. The parafit test was performed using the APE morphological identification was undertaken using a package [25] under R version 3.0.0 [26]. Finally, a tangle- published key [5] and confirmed by CWD. For each bat gram allowing visualization of host-parasite associations fly taxon, one specimen per host bat species was ran- was created with the software TreeMap 3b [27]. domly selected for sequencing except flies parasitizing one individual of S. marovaza for which four flies were Results analyzed and included in a bacteriome study of nycteri- Sixty-six sequences from nycteribiid bat fly sampled biids from the Malagasy Region [10] (Additional
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