2007
DOI: 10.1128/aem.02120-06
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Geographical Distribution and Diversity of Bacteria Associated with Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Abstract: Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most widely used model systems in biology. However, little is known about its associated bacterial community. As a first step towards understanding these communities, we compared bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequence libraries recovered from 11 natural populations of adult D. melanogaster. Bacteria from these sequence libraries were grouped into 74 distinct taxa, spanning the phyla Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Firmicutes, which were unevenly spread across host populations… Show more

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“…This study, replicated across multiple microbial habitats, adds to the growing body of evidence that bacteria do not necessarily follow the well-established biogeographical patterns that are commonly exhibited by plants and animals. For example, previous work has shown little (Fuhrman et al 2008) to no relationship (Fierer and Jackson 2006, Corby-Harris et al 2007, Humbert et al 2009, Jones et al 2009, Tedersoo and Nara 2010 between microbial diversity and latitude. Likewise, from previous work we know that the continental-scale structure of bacterial communities does not relate to the general biome classification schemes used by plant and animal biogeographers , Chu et al 2010.…”
Section: Figmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This study, replicated across multiple microbial habitats, adds to the growing body of evidence that bacteria do not necessarily follow the well-established biogeographical patterns that are commonly exhibited by plants and animals. For example, previous work has shown little (Fuhrman et al 2008) to no relationship (Fierer and Jackson 2006, Corby-Harris et al 2007, Humbert et al 2009, Jones et al 2009, Tedersoo and Nara 2010 between microbial diversity and latitude. Likewise, from previous work we know that the continental-scale structure of bacterial communities does not relate to the general biome classification schemes used by plant and animal biogeographers , Chu et al 2010.…”
Section: Figmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Latitudinal gradients in diversity are almost ubiquitously uniform: highest richness near the equator and decreasing toward the poles (Gaston 2000, Willig et al 2003. In contrast, microbes do not appear to follow any predictable trend with latitude (Fierer and Jackson 2006, Corby-Harris et al 2007). Elevational gradients occur across a smaller spatial scale, and therefore we might expect that microbes would exhibit elevational diversity patterns that more closely parallel those observed for plant and animal taxa.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Drosophila melanogaster, the most widely used insect model organism, hosts a rich AAB microbiome (11,12,58,61). Analyzing the bacterial community associated with laboratoryreared and wild-captured D. melanogaster by establishing 16S rRNA gene libraries, Cox and Gilmore (12) showed that Acetobacter represented one of the most abundant genera, with 29% of the clones analyzed.…”
Section: Which Insect Hosts Do Aab Colonize?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Given the bacterium thrives in an intercellular environment rich in sucrose which it uses as a carbon source the number of candidate host species for natural colonization is low. However, despite difficulties in achieving colonization [100], G. diazotrophicus has been intentionally inoculated into cotton, calabash (Lagenaria siceraria) [15], maize [101] sugarcane, wheat, rice, oilseed rape, tomato, white clover [24,102], sugar beet, common beans [103] Arabidopsis [24] and sorghum [104].…”
Section: Horizontal Transmission Of G Diazotrophicusmentioning
confidence: 99%