Article
Drosophila Genotype Influences Commensal Bacterial Levels.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Early Angela M, Shanmugarajah Niroshan, Buchon Nicolas, Clark Andrew G
Abstract excerpt
Host genotype can influence the composition of the commensal bacterial community in some organisms. Composition, however, is only one parameter describing a microbial community. Here, we test whether a second parameter-abundance of bacteria-is a heritable trait by quantifying the presence of four commensal bacterial strains within 36 gnotobiotic inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster. We find that D....
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