The relationship of Wolbachia infection and different phenotypes in the Drosophila melanogaster natural populations from radioactively polluted and clear areas in Ukraine

  • N. V. Gora Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601, Kyiv, Volodymyrska str., 60
  • S. V. Serga Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601, Kyiv, Volodymyrska str., 60
  • O. M. Maistrenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601, Kyiv, Volodymyrska str., 60European Molecular Biology LaboratoryGermany, 69117, Heidelberg, Meyerhofstrasse, 1
  • O. V. Protsenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601, Kyiv, Volodymyrska str., 60
  • I. A. Kozeretska Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601, Kyiv, Volodymyrska str., 60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7124/visnyk.utgis.16.2.1061

Abstract

Aim. The study was performed to investigate the relationship between Wolbachia infection and phenotypes that distinct from wild-type of Drosophila melanogaster from different localities in Ukraine including those from Chornobyl Exclusion Zone during 2013–2014. Methods. We have established isofemale lines from populations: Uman’, Inkerman, Odesa, Varva, Kyiv, Drogobych, Yaniv, Poliske, Chornobyl, and Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). The ambient radiation (µSv/h) was measured in the sample sites. The flies were reared in the laboratory through two generations. We carried out the observation of F2 flies for visibly detectable phenotypes. According to whether the trait was inherited, observations were separated into three categories: with deviations of posterior cross-vein (C2) (incomplete penetrance), visible phenotypic changes (non-inherited) and mutations (inherited). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with primers specific to the 16S rRNA and Wolbachia surface protein (wsp) genes were used to determine infection presence in isofemale lines of the flies established for each population. Results. Examination of different phenotypes indicates that the highest mutation rate (but not C2 and not inherited changes) is in populations from Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and, therefore, connection with ambient radiation was detected (p = 0.0241). Generalized mixed linear regression has shown evidence that the presence of phenotypes with defects of C2 vein varies with endosymbiont infection presence (p = 0.03473) in the populations from radioactively polluted areas. Conclusion. Wolbachia is not related to occurring phenotypes neither with phenotypic changes nor with mutations, at least in surveyed populations. However, C2 defected phenotypes relates to the bacterial presence in populations from the contaminated area. Nonetheless, the origin of this relationship is unknown and the mechanisms of such a connection require further research.
Keywords: Drosophila melanogaster, Wolbachia, endosymbiont, ambient radiation, mutation, phenotypic change, posterior cross-vein.

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