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SUBMITTER: Kang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7058939 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang David D Douglas Angela E AE
Biology letters 20200226 2
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, <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>. Lipid content varied 3.6-fold among the flies and was significantly correlated with the abundance of gut-derived bacterial DNA sequences that were assigned to genes contributing to 16 KEGG pathways. These includ ...[more]