The Greater Himalayan Sequence (GHS) is composed of a sequence of Barrovianfacies metamorphic rocks up to kyanite or sillimanite + K-feldspar grade, migmatites, layered stromatic migmatites and leucogranite sheets....The Greater Himalayan Sequence (GHS) is composed of a sequence of Barrovianfacies metamorphic rocks up to kyanite or sillimanite + K-feldspar grade, migmatites, layered stromatic migmatites and leucogranite sheets. These rocks were metamorphosed during the late Eocene to early Miocene, and are bounded below by a large-scale SW-vergent ductile shear zone-thrust fault (Main Central Thrust; MCT), and above by a NE-dipping low-angle normal sense shear zone and fault (Zanskar Shear Zone; ZSZ),展开更多
Microbial symbioses have had profound impacts on the evolution of animals.Conversely,changes in host biology may impact the evolutionary trajectory of symbionts themselves.Blattabacterium cuenoti is present in almost ...Microbial symbioses have had profound impacts on the evolution of animals.Conversely,changes in host biology may impact the evolutionary trajectory of symbionts themselves.Blattabacterium cuenoti is present in almost all cockroach species and enables hosts to subsist on a nutrient-poor diet.To investigate if host biology has impacted Blattabacterium at the genomic level,we sequenced and analyzed 25 genomes from Australian soil-burrowing cockroaches(Blaberidae:Panesthiinae),which have undergone at least seven separate subterranean,subsocial transitions from above-ground,wood-feeding ancestors.We find at least three independent instances of genome erosion have occurred in Blattabacterium strains exclusive to Australian soil-burrowing cockroaches.These shrinkages have involved the repeated inactivation of genes involved in amino acid biosynthesis and nitrogen recycling,the core role of Blattabacterium in the host-symbiont relationship.The most drastic of these erosions have occurred in hosts thought to have transitioned underground the earliest relative to other lineages,further suggestive of a link between gene loss in Blattabacterium and the burrowing behavior of hosts.As Blattabacterium is unable to fulfill its core function in certain host lineages,these findings suggest soil-burrowing cockroaches must acquire these nutrients from novel sources.Our study represents one of the first cases,to our knowledge,of parallel host adaptations leading to concomitant parallelism in their mutualistic symbionts,further underscoring the intimate relationship between these two partners.展开更多
文摘The Greater Himalayan Sequence (GHS) is composed of a sequence of Barrovianfacies metamorphic rocks up to kyanite or sillimanite + K-feldspar grade, migmatites, layered stromatic migmatites and leucogranite sheets. These rocks were metamorphosed during the late Eocene to early Miocene, and are bounded below by a large-scale SW-vergent ductile shear zone-thrust fault (Main Central Thrust; MCT), and above by a NE-dipping low-angle normal sense shear zone and fault (Zanskar Shear Zone; ZSZ),
基金supported by the Australian Research Council(grant no.FT160100463)。
文摘Microbial symbioses have had profound impacts on the evolution of animals.Conversely,changes in host biology may impact the evolutionary trajectory of symbionts themselves.Blattabacterium cuenoti is present in almost all cockroach species and enables hosts to subsist on a nutrient-poor diet.To investigate if host biology has impacted Blattabacterium at the genomic level,we sequenced and analyzed 25 genomes from Australian soil-burrowing cockroaches(Blaberidae:Panesthiinae),which have undergone at least seven separate subterranean,subsocial transitions from above-ground,wood-feeding ancestors.We find at least three independent instances of genome erosion have occurred in Blattabacterium strains exclusive to Australian soil-burrowing cockroaches.These shrinkages have involved the repeated inactivation of genes involved in amino acid biosynthesis and nitrogen recycling,the core role of Blattabacterium in the host-symbiont relationship.The most drastic of these erosions have occurred in hosts thought to have transitioned underground the earliest relative to other lineages,further suggestive of a link between gene loss in Blattabacterium and the burrowing behavior of hosts.As Blattabacterium is unable to fulfill its core function in certain host lineages,these findings suggest soil-burrowing cockroaches must acquire these nutrients from novel sources.Our study represents one of the first cases,to our knowledge,of parallel host adaptations leading to concomitant parallelism in their mutualistic symbionts,further underscoring the intimate relationship between these two partners.
基金supported by the European Commission’s Research Fund for Coal and Steel(No.RFCR-CT-2013-00002)PhD Scholarship awarded by the University of Nottingham Ningbo,China