Evidence for a gut microbial community conferring adaptability to diet quality and temperature stressors in phytophagous insects: the melon fruit fly Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Diptera: Tephritidae) as a case study
Abir Hafsi,
Laura Moquet,
Wouter Hendrycks
et al.
Abstract:Background
The high invasiveness of phytophagous insects is related to their adaptability to various environments, that can be influenced by their associated microbial community. Microbial symbionts are known to play a key role in the biology, ecology, and evolution of phytophagous insects, but their abundance and diversity are suggested to be influenced by environmental stressors. In this work, using 16 S rRNA metabarcoding we aim to verify (1) if laboratory rearing affects microbial symbiont com… Show more
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