Exploring the Impact of Host Crop and Sex on the Microbiome of Spotted Wing Drosophila: Core Communities and Co-occurrence Dynamics
In this study, we examined Drosophila collected from the wild and three types of crops (blueberry, blackberry, and elderberry) from various locations in the United States to investigate the factors influencing Drosophila microorganisms under ecologically realistic conditions using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing.