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Symbiotic bacteria motivate the foraging decision and promote fecundity and survival of Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae)

BACKGROUND: The gut bacteria of tephritid fruit flies play prominent roles in nutrition, reproduction, maintenance and ecological adaptations of the host. Here, we adopted an approach based on direct observation of symbiotic or axenic flies feeding on dishes seeded with drops of full diet (containin...

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Autores principales: Akami, Mazarin, Ren, Xue-Ming, Qi, Xuewei, Mansour, Abdelaziz, Gao, Bingli, Cao, Shuai, Niu, Chang-Ying
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6805663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31640545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1607-3