Insect guts present distinctive environments for microbial colonization, and bacteria in the
gut potentially provide many beneficial services to their hosts. Insects display a wide range …

All insects are colonized by microorganisms on the insect exoskeleton, in the gut and
hemocoel, and within insect cells. The insect microbiota is generally different from …

Reconstruction of target genomes from sequence data produced by instruments that are
agnostic as to the species-of-origin may be confounded by contaminant DNA. Whether …

Drosophila melanogaster is emerging as an important model of non-pathogenic host–
microbe interactions. The genetic and experimental tractability of Drosophila has led to …

The susceptibility of Anopheles mosquitoes to Plasmodium infections relies on complex
interactions between the insect vector and the malaria parasite. A number of studies have …

Abstract Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) have been shown to host diverse bacterial
communities that vary depending on the sex of the mosquito, the developmental stage, and …

Surveys of 16S rDNA sequences from the honey bee, Apis mellifera, have revealed the
presence of eight distinctive bacterial phylotypes in intestinal tracts of adult worker bees …

Nearly all eukaryotes are host to beneficial or benign bacteria in their gut lumen, either
vertically inherited, or acquired from the environment. While bacteria core to the honey bee …

Animals live together with diverse bacteria that can impact their biology. In Drosophila
melanogaster, gut-associated bacterial communities are relatively simple in composition but …

The bacteria in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster of different life stages was quantified by
454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. The sequence reads were dominated by …