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Wolbachia Strains Typing in Different Geographic Population Spider, Hylyphantes Graminicola (Linyphiidae)

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The Wolbachia endosymbiont of spiders has not been extensively examined. In order to investigate the distribution, evolutionary history, and reproductive phenotype of Wolbachia in spiders in China, we tested 11 geographic populations of Hylyphantes graminicola. Wolbachia infection has been detected in each population. 10 Wolbachia strains have been characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Phylogenetic analyses indicated that eight Wolbachia strains in H. graminicola belonged to supergroup B, and two belonged to supergroup A. No correlation existed between Wolbachia diversity and host’s geographic distance. The significant correlation was observed between pairwise distance of H. graminicola COI and genetic divergence of associated Wolbachia strains. We also found that Wolbachia infection frequencies in hosts varied over geographic space.

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We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments on the manuscript. We also thank Dr. Liu Jie and Yu Hao for identifying spider samples. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 30870284).

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    Yueli Yun & Chaoliang Lei

  2. College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China

    Yueli Yun, Yu Peng, Fengxiang Liu, Jian Chen & Linbo Chen

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Yun, Y., Lei, C., Peng, Y. et al. Wolbachia Strains Typing in Different Geographic Population Spider, Hylyphantes Graminicola (Linyphiidae). Curr Microbiol 62, 139–145 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-010-9686-2

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