Replication of the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Blochmannia floridanus Is Correlated with the Developmental and Reproductive Stages of Its Ant Host-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Replication of the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Blochmannia floridanus Is Correlated with the Developmental and Reproductive Stages of Its Ant Host

Published:2004-07 Issue:7 Volume:70 Page:4096-4102
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Wolschin Florian¹,Hölldobler Bert²,Gross Roy¹,Zientz Evelyn¹

Affiliation:

1. Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie

2. Lehrstuhl für Verhaltensphysiologie und Soziobiologie, Biozentrum, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany

Abstract

ABSTRACT The dynamics of replication of the intracellular endosymbiotic bacterium Blochmannia floridanus was determined during the larval development of its host ant Camponotus floridanus by real-time quantitative PCR. The bacteria were found to proliferate during pupation and immediately after the eclosion of the imagines (adult ants). In older workers the number of bacteria present in the midgut bacteriocytes decreased significantly. In contrast, the bacterial population in the ovaries was dependent on the reproductive state of the animal. An age-dependent degeneration of the midgut bacteriocytes was also investigated by microscopic techniques in males and female castes of the closely related ant species C. herculeanus and C. sericeiventris , respectively, with similar results and supports the concept of age-dependent degeneration of the midgut bacteriocytes in all castes.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.70.7.4096-4102.2004

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