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Analysis of intestinal microbiota in hybrid house mice reveals evolutionary divergence in a vertebrate hologenome

Jun Wang, Shirin Kalyan, Natalie Steck, Leslie M. Turner, Bettina Harr, Sven Künzel, Marie Vallier, Robert Häsler, Andre Franke, Hans Heinrich Oberg, Saleh M. Ibrahim, Guntram A. Grassl, Dieter Kabelitz, John F. Baines*

*Korrespondierende/r Autor/-in für diese Arbeit

Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that natural selection operating on hosts to maintain their microbiome contributes to the emergence of new species, that is, the 'hologenomic basis of speciation'. Here we analyse the gut microbiota of two house mice subspecies, Mus musculus musculus and M. m. domesticus, across their Central European hybrid zone, in addition to hybrids generated in the lab. Hybrid mice display widespread transgressive phenotypes (that is, exceed or fall short of parental values) in a variety of measures of bacterial community structure, which reveals the importance of stabilizing selection operating on the intestinal microbiome within species. Further genetic and immunological analyses reveal genetic incompatibilities, aberrant immune gene expression and increased intestinal pathology associated with altered community structure among hybrids. These results provide unique insight into the consequences of evolutionary divergence in a vertebrate 'hologenome', which may be an unrecognized contributing factor to reproductive isolation in this taxonomic group.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer6440
ZeitschriftNature Communications
Jahrgang6
ISSN1751-8628
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 04.03.2015

Fördermittel

We thank Silke Carstensen, Jan Schubert, Katja Cloppenborg-Schmidt, Dorina Ölsner and Tanja Wesse for excellent technical assistance; Kim Steige and Miriam Linnenbrink for assistance in the field; Christine Pfeifle and Pankaj Barua for assistance in mouse husbandry; and Arne Nolte and Fabian Staubach for helpful discussion. This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Excellence Cluster 306 ‘Inflammation at Interfaces’ and the Max Planck Society.

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