bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.30.320895; this version posted September 30, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Novel Chlamydiae and Amoebophilus endosymbionts are prevalent in wild isolates of the model social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum Authors: Tamara S. Haselkorn1, Daniela Jimenez2, Usman Bashir2, Eleni Sallinger1, David C. 2 2 3 Queller , Joan E. Strassmann , Susanne DiSalvo Affiliations: 1Department of Biology, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Avenue, Conway, AR 72035 2Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 3Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 44 Circle Drive, Edwardsville, IL 62026 * Corresponding author Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 44 Circle Drive, Edwardsville, IL 62026;
[email protected] Running Title: Prevalent obligate endosymbionts in social amoebae 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.30.320895; this version posted September 30, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Significance statement: In a large survey across the eastern US, we identify the presence and prevalence of novel strains of obligate intracellular symbionts from within the Chlamydiae, Amoebophilus, and Procabacter lineages in natural populations of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.