Interactions between the microbiome and mating influence the female's transcriptional profile in Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT: Drosophila melanogaster females undergo a variety of post-mating changes that influence their activity, feeding behavior, metabolism, egg production and gene expression. These changes are induced either by mating itself or by sperm or seminal fluid proteins. In addition, studies have shown that axenic females-those lacking a microbiome-have altered fecundity compared to females with a microbiome, and that the microbiome of the female's mate can influence reproductive success. However, the extent to which post-mating changes in transcript abundance are affected by microbiome state is not well-characterized. Here we investigated fecundity and the post-mating transcript abundance profile of axenic or control females after mating with either axenic or control males. We observed interactions be

SUBMITTER: Delbare SYN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584617 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature