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Endoparasitoid lifestyle promotes endogenization and domestication of dsDNA viruses

David G Notton
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The accidental endogenization of viral elements within eukaryotic genomes can occasionally provide significant evolutionary benefits, giving rise to their long-term retention, that is, to viral domestication. For instance, in some endoparasitoid wasps (whose immature stages develop inside their hosts), the membrane-fusion property of viruses has been repeatedly domesticated following the ancestral endogenizations of double-stranded DNA viruses. The endogenized genes provide female wasps with a delivery tool to inject virulence factors that are essential to the developmental success of their offspring. Because all known cases of viral domestication involve endoparasitic wasps, we hypothesized that this lifestyle, relying on a close interaction between individuals, may have promoted the endogenization and domestication of viruses. By analyzing the composition of 124 Hymenoptera genomes, spread over the diversity of this clade and including free-living, ecto- and endoparasitoid species, we tested this hypothesis. Our analysis first revealed that double-stranded DNA viruses, in comparisons with other viral genomic structures (ssDNA, dsRNA, ssRNA), are more often integrated (that is, endogenized) and domesticated (that is, retained by selection) than expected from their estimated abundance in insect viral communities. Secondly, our analysis indicates that the rate at which dsDNA viruses are endogenized is higher in endoparasitoids than in ectoparasitoids or free-living hymenopterans, which also translates into more frequent events of domestication. Hence, these results are consistent with the hypothesis that the endoparasitoid lifestyle has facilitated the endogenization of dsDNA viruses, in turn increasing the opportunities of domestications that now play a central role in the biology of many parasitoid lineages.
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hal-03861307 , version 1 (24-11-2022)
hal-03861307 , version 2 (30-06-2023)

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Benjamin Guinet, D. Lepetit, S. Charlat, Peter N Buhl, David G Notton, et al.. Endoparasitoid lifestyle promotes endogenization and domestication of dsDNA viruses. eLife, 2023, 12, pp.e85993. ⟨10.7554/eLife.85993⟩. ⟨hal-03861307v2⟩
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