Commensal bacteria act as a broad genetic buffer in Drosophila during chronic under-nutrition
Dali Ma, Maroun S. Bou Sleiman, Pauline Joncour, Claire-Emmanuelle Indelicato, Michael Frochaux, Virginie Braman, Maria Litovchenko, Gilles Storelli, Bart Deplancke, François Leulier
This study shows that the Drosophila facultative symbiont Lactobacillus plantarum buffers genetic variation under chronic under-nutrition, reducing phenotypic and gene expression variation.
iScience · Aug 2, 2019Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology