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Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii
There is growing evidence that symbiotic microbes can influence multiple nutrition-related behaviors of their hosts, including locomotion, feeding, and foraging. However, how the microbiome affects nutrition-related behavior is largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate clear sexual dimorphism in how the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8141744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34040592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.656406 |
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author | Shu, Runhang Hahn, Daniel A. Jurkevitch, Edouard Liburd, Oscar E. Yuval, Boaz Wong, Adam Chun-Nin |
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description | There is growing evidence that symbiotic microbes can influence multiple nutrition-related behaviors of their hosts, including locomotion, feeding, and foraging. However, how the microbiome affects nutrition-related behavior is largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate clear sexual dimorphism in how the microbiome affects foraging behavior of a frugivorous fruit fly, Drosophila suzukii. Female flies deprived of their microbiome (axenic) were consistently less active in foraging on fruits than their conventional counterparts, even though they were more susceptible to starvation and starvation-induced locomotion was notably more elevated in axenic than conventional females. Such behavioral change was not observed in male flies. The lag of axenic female flies but not male flies to forage on fruits is associated with lower oviposition by axenic flies, and mirrored by reduced food seeking observed in virgin females when compared to mated, gravid females. In contrast to foraging intensity being highly dependent on the microbiome, conventional and axenic flies of both sexes showed relatively consistent and similar fruit preferences in foraging and oviposition, with raspberries being preferred among the fruits tested. Collectively, this work highlights a clear sex-specific effect of the microbiome on foraging and locomotion behaviors in flies, an important first step toward identifying specific mechanisms that may drive the modulation of insect behavior by interactions between the host, the microbiome, and food. |
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spelling | pubmed-81417442021-05-25 Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii Shu, Runhang Hahn, Daniel A. Jurkevitch, Edouard Liburd, Oscar E. Yuval, Boaz Wong, Adam Chun-Nin Front Microbiol Microbiology There is growing evidence that symbiotic microbes can influence multiple nutrition-related behaviors of their hosts, including locomotion, feeding, and foraging. However, how the microbiome affects nutrition-related behavior is largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate clear sexual dimorphism in how the microbiome affects foraging behavior of a frugivorous fruit fly, Drosophila suzukii. Female flies deprived of their microbiome (axenic) were consistently less active in foraging on fruits than their conventional counterparts, even though they were more susceptible to starvation and starvation-induced locomotion was notably more elevated in axenic than conventional females. Such behavioral change was not observed in male flies. The lag of axenic female flies but not male flies to forage on fruits is associated with lower oviposition by axenic flies, and mirrored by reduced food seeking observed in virgin females when compared to mated, gravid females. In contrast to foraging intensity being highly dependent on the microbiome, conventional and axenic flies of both sexes showed relatively consistent and similar fruit preferences in foraging and oviposition, with raspberries being preferred among the fruits tested. Collectively, this work highlights a clear sex-specific effect of the microbiome on foraging and locomotion behaviors in flies, an important first step toward identifying specific mechanisms that may drive the modulation of insect behavior by interactions between the host, the microbiome, and food. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8141744/ /pubmed/34040592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.656406 Text en Copyright © 2021 Shu, Hahn, Jurkevitch, Liburd, Yuval and Wong. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Shu, Runhang Hahn, Daniel A. Jurkevitch, Edouard Liburd, Oscar E. Yuval, Boaz Wong, Adam Chun-Nin Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii |
title | Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii |
title_full | Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii |
title_fullStr | Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii |
title_full_unstemmed | Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii |
title_short | Sex-Dependent Effects of the Microbiome on Foraging and Locomotion in Drosophila suzukii |
title_sort | sex-dependent effects of the microbiome on foraging and locomotion in drosophila suzukii |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8141744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34040592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.656406 |
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