Adaptation to Chronic Nutritional Stress Leads to Reduced Dependence on Microbiota in <italic toggle="yes">Drosophila melanogaster</italic>

Adaptation to Chronic Nutritional Stress Leads to Reduced Dependence on Microbiota in <italic toggle="yes">Drosophila melanogaster</italic>

ABSTRACT Numerous studies have shown that animal nutrition is tightly linked to gut microbiota, especially under nutritional stress. In Drosophila melanogaster, microbiota are known to promote juvenile growth, development, and survival on poor diets, mainly through enhanced digestion leading to chan...

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Main Authors: Berra Erkosar, Sylvain Kolly, Jan R. van der Meer, Tadeusz J. Kawecki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-11-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
adaptation
digestion
Drosophila
experimental evolution
juvenile development
microbiota
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01496-17

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01496-17

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