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Trichinella: Becoming a parasite.

Dante S Zarlenga¹, Eric P Hoberg², Peter Thompson³

¹USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Animal Parasitic Diseases Lab, Beltsville, MD, USA.

Veterinary Parasitology

|June 23, 2024

Summary

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Parasitic nematodes evolved independently multiple times, with horizontal gene transfer (HGT) potentially driving early Trichinella evolution. Host selection linked to ammonia metabolism and cyanate production may explain parasite longevity and diversity.

Keywords:

Cyanase Evolution Horizontal gene transfer Parasitism Stockholm Paradigm Trichinella

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Area of Science:

Evolutionary biology
Parasitology
Genetics

Background:

Parasitism evolved independently at least 15 times in nematodes, leading to high genetic and biological diversity.
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is hypothesized to be crucial in the evolution of parasitism among early Trichinella ancestors.
Parasites exhibit resilience to climate change and environmental shifts.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the role of HGT and ecological factors in the evolution of Trichinella parasitism.
To propose a new paradigm linking host selection, ammonia metabolism, and cyanate production to parasite longevity.
To connect evolutionary periods of Trichinella with geological and climatological events over 500 million years.

Main Methods:

Phylogenetic analysis to trace the evolution of parasitism.
Integration of ecological and evolutionary theories (Stockholm Paradigm) including Ecological Fitting, Oscillation Hypothesis, Geographic Mosaic Theory, and Taxon Pulse Hypothesis.
Examination of HGT in a phylogenetic-historical context.

Main Results:

Parasitism evolved independently multiple times in nematodes, with significant diversity in transition pathways.
A proposed link between host selection, ammonia metabolism, and cyanate generation by reprogrammed nurse cells, highlighting the role of Trichinella cyanase.
Potential correlations between Trichinella evolutionary history and major geological/climatological events.

Conclusions:

HGT and ecological factors likely played significant roles in the diversification of parasitic nematodes, particularly Trichinella.
The interplay of host-parasite interactions, metabolism, and environmental changes shapes parasite evolution.
The Stockholm Paradigm, combined with HGT, offers a framework for understanding the diversity of Trichinella genotypes over evolutionary time.