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Functional traits of the gut microbiome correlated with host lipid content in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster.
Biology letters - 1 Feb 2020
Kang David, Douglas Angela E
Abstract excerpt
Most research on the nutritional significance of the gut microbiome is conducted on laboratory animals, and its relevance to wild animals is largely unknown. This study investigated the microbiome correlates of lipid content in individual wild fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster. Lipid content varied 3.6-fold among the flies and was significantly correlated with the abundance of gut-derived bacterial DNA...
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