PERSISTENCE OF A MICROBIAL FLORA DURING POSTEMBRYOGENESIS OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER
PERSISTENCE OF A MICROBIAL FLORA DURING POSTEMBRYOGENESIS OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2011(69)90163-3
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发表时间:
1969-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
BAKULA, M
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作者:
BAKULA, M
The “infection” mechanism whereby bacteria on the surface of the egg ofDrosophila melanogaster“infect” larvae has been indirectly determined to result from young larvae eating the chorion (or off the chorion) of the egg. There was no evidence that bacteria occur within the egg. A bacterial flora was shown to persist through larval and pupal development in two wild-type stocks ofDrosophilahaving different gram-positive floras. Further studies with anEscherichia coli-infected stock have shown thatE. colipersists during the development of the insect only when monoxenic; it is replaced within 1 week after exposure to normal flora. Bacteria may be excluded from the developing imago about the time of hypoderm formation, although adult flies removed from all contamination except that present in the pupal case did maintain a bacterial flora. The two wild-type stocks were monoxenically infected with a member of their own flora, or with a foreign bacterium, or were left axenic. The length of the larval period in the stocks ofDrosophilaused was significantly shorter when they were infected with a member of their own flora than it was when they were axenic. The length of the larval period when stocks were monoxenically infected with a foreign bacterium was significantly longer than when a member of the normal flora was present. Studies of eggs removed from females under sterile conditions indicate that contamination of the chorion surface occurs via the feces. The persistence of bacteria in all stages of development, the inability ofE. colito remain with these stocks, and the shortened developmental time in the presence of normal flora suggests that the microbial flora studied is mutualistically symbiotic, and may be genetically determined.