Genome-Inferred Correspondence between Phylogeny and Metabolic Traits in the Wild Drosophila Gut Microbiome.

ABSTRACT: Annotated genome sequences provide valuable insight into the functional capabilities of members of microbial communities. Nevertheless, most studies on the microbiome in animal guts use metagenomic data, hampering the assignment of genes to specific microbial taxa. Here, we make use of the readily culturable bacterial communities in the gut of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to obtain draft genome sequences for 96 isolates from wild flies. These include 81 new de novo assembled genomes, assigned to three orders (Enterobacterales, Lactobacillales, and Rhodospirillales) with 80% of strains identified to species level using average nucleotide identity and phylogenomic reconstruction. Based on annotations by the RAST pipeline, among-isolate variation in metabolic function partitioned str

SUBMITTER: McMullen JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8358223 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature