Anna Karenina as a promoter of microbial diversity in the cosmopolitan agricultural pest Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Diptera, Tephritidae).

Gut microbial communities are critical in determining the evolutive success of fruit fly phytophagous pests (Diptera, Tephritidae), facilitating their adaptation to suboptimal environmental conditions and to plant allelochemical defences. An important source of variation for the microbial diversity...

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Main Authors: Nele Mullens, Wouter Hendrycks, Jackline Bakengesa, Sija Kabota, Jenipher Tairo, Hannes Svardal, Ramadhani Majubwa, Maulid Mwatawala, Marc De Meyer, Massimiliano Virgilio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300875&type=printable