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Host species and environmental effects on bacterial communities associated with Drosophila in the laboratory and in the natural environment.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Staubach Fabian, Baines John F, Künzel Sven, Bik Elisabeth M, Petrov Dmitri A
Abstract excerpt
The fruit fly Drosophila is a classic model organism to study adaptation as well as the relationship between genetic variation and phenotypes. Although associated bacterial communities might be important for many aspects of Drosophila biology, knowledge about their diversity, composition, and factors shaping them is limited. We used 454-based sequencing of a variable region of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene...
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