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SUBMITTER: Papadopoulos C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7350354 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Papadopoulos Christos C Karas Panagiotis A PA Vasileiadis Sotirios S Ligda Panagiota P Saratsis Anastasios A Sotiraki Smaragda S Karpouzas Dimitrios G DG
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20200529 6
Phlebotomine sandflies are vectors of the humans' and mammals' parasite <i>Leishmania</i> spp. Although the role of gut microbiome in the biological cycle of insects is acknowledged, we still know little about the factors modulating the composition of the gut microbiota of sandflies. We tested whether host species impose a strong structural effect on the gut microbiota of <i>Phlebotomus</i> spp. Sandflies were collected from the island of Leros, Greece, and classified to <i>P.</i> <i>papatasi</i ...[more]