Drosophila Genotype Influences Commensal Bacterial Levels.

Drosophila Genotype Influences Commensal Bacterial Levels.

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 co...

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Main Authors: Angela M Early, Niroshan Shanmugarajah, Nicolas Buchon, Andrew G Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5240971?pdf=render

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