The microbiota of Drosophila suzukii influences the larval development of Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT: Microorganisms play a central role in the biology of vinegar flies such as Drosophila suzukii and Drosophila melanogaster: serving as a food source to both adults and larvae, and influencing a range of traits including nutrition, behavior, and development. The niches utilized by the fly species partially overlap, as do the microbiota that sustain them, and interactions among these players may drive the development of crop diseases. To learn more about how the microbiota of one species may affect the other, we isolated and identified microbes from field-caught D. suzukii, and then characterized their effects on D. melanogaster larval development time in the laboratory. We found that the D. suzukii microbiota consistently included both yeasts and bacteria.

SUBMITTER: Solomon GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6873876 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature