Response to Comment on "The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia"

Robert M Brucker; Seth R Bordenstein

doi:10.1126/science.1256708

Response to Comment on "The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia"

Science. 2014 Aug 29;345(6200):1011. doi: 10.1126/science.1256708.

Authors

Robert M Brucker¹, Seth R Bordenstein²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. Rowland Institute at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. [email protected] [email protected].
² Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 25170145
DOI: 10.1126/science.1256708

Abstract

Chandler and Turelli postulate that intrinsic hybrid dysfunction underscores hybrid lethality in Nasonia. Although it is a suitable conception for examining hybrid incompatibilities, their account of the evidence is factually inaccurate and leaves out the evolutionary process for why lethality became conditional on nuclear-microbe interactions. Hybrid incompatibilities in the context of phylosymbiosis are resolved by hologenomic principles and exemplify this emerging postmodern synthesis.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Bacteria / classification*
Gastrointestinal Tract / microbiology*
Germ-Free Life / physiology*
Hymenoptera / microbiology*
Hymenoptera / physiology*
Symbiosis*