Fruit Fly Gut Microbiome Colonization (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Fruit Fly Gut Microbiome Colonization

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A cross section of the fruit fly gut that is preferentially colonized by the bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum.

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William Ludington, Allan Spradling, and co-authors.

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