Olive fruit fly rearing procedures affect the vertical transmission of the bacterial symbiont Candidatus Erwinia dacicola
P. Sacchetti, R. Pastorelli, G. Bigiotti, R. Guidi, S. Ruschioni, C. Viti, A. Belcari
The paper investigates how rearing procedures affect the vertical transmission of the bacterial symbiont Candidatus Erwinia dacicola in olive fruit flies, finding that certain treatments reduce symbiont abundance.
bioRxiv · Jul 11, 2018Microbiology