Скачать или смотреть Coevolution of bat flies, endosymbiotic bacteria, and host bats [ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project]

Bat flies are very strange ectoparasitic insects. They have no wings, their head and eyes are reduced, and they look like six-legged spiders, sucking bat blood and spending their almost entire life on the host bat. Their strangeness is not limited to the appearance: they have a uterus inside their body and nurture their young with milk, their larvae pupate immediately after being laid, and they have special cells and organs for symbiotic bacteria. Here, we deliver an easy-to-understand visual introduction to bat fly's unique biology, coevolution with symbiotic bacteria, relationship to the host bats, etc.,, with a lot of fascinating images and movies.

Also please have a look on:
[ERATO FUKATSU Evolving Symbiosis Project]
https://www.jst.go.jp/erato/fukatsu/e...
[Symbiotic Evolution and Biological Functions Research Group, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)]
https://bpri.aist.go.jp/en/symbio
[On endosymbiotic bacteria of bat flies]
https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2011.125
[On relationship of bat flies and host bats]
https://doi.org/10.7601/mez.62.185
[On genome analysis of Aschnera]
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.13...

The original version in Japanese released on 17 Mar. 2023
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Navigators: Takema Fukatsu (AIST/Univ. Tokyo/Univ. Tsukuba), Nobutaka Urano (Urano animal hospital)
Field survey: Nobutaka Urano (Urano animal hospital), Shunji Fujita (環近地野許第2107301号)
Movies provided by: Minoru Moriyama (AIST), Ryuichi Koga (AIST), Nobutaka Urano (Urano animal hospital)
Images provided by: Minoru Moriyama (AIST), Ryuichi Koga (AIST), Takema Fukatsu (AIST/Univ. Tokyo/Univ. Tsukuba), Nobutaka Urano (Urano animal hospital), Yasuo Chinzei (Suzuka Univ. of medical science)
Advisor: Soichiro Sawada

References:
✝ On endosymbiotic bacteria of bat flies
Hosokawa T, Nikoh N, Koga R, Sato M, Tanahashi M, Meng XY, Fukatsu T (2012) Reductive genome evolution, host–symbiont co-speciation and uterine transmission of endosymbiotic bacteria in bat flies. The ISME Journal 6(3): 577-587.
https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2011.125
✝ On relationship of bat flies and host bats
Nikoh N, Sato M, Kondo N, Fukatsu T (2011) Phylogenetic comparison between nycteribiid bat flies and their host bats. Medical Entomology and Zoology 62(3): 185-194.
https://doi.org/10.7601/mez.62.185
✝ On genome analysis of Aschnera
Koga R, Moriyama M, Nozaki T, Fukatsu T. (2024) Genome analysis of “Candidatus Aschnera chinzeii”, the bacterial endosymbiont of the blood-sucking bat fly Penicillidia jenynsii (Insecta: Diptera: Nycteribiidae). Frontiers in Microbiology 14: 1336919.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.13...
✝ On ecology of the bristled bat fly Penicillidia jenynsii
Funakoshi K (1977) Ecological studies on the bat fly, Penicillidia jenynsii (Diptera: Nycteribiidae), infested on the Japanese long-fingered bat, with special reference to the adaptability to their hosts from the viewpoint of life history. Japanese Journal of Ecology 27(2): 125-140.
https://doi.org/10.18960/seitai.27.2_125
✝ Histological description of the endosymbiotic bacteria of bat flies in the 1930s
Aschner M (1931) Die Bakterienflora der Pupiparen (Diptera). Eine Symbiosestudie an blutsaugenden Insekten. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 20: 368-442.
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00444102
✝ Bat fly images　
flickr / Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

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