Persistence of diet effects on the microbiota of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

The insect commensal microbiota consists of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. We explored the effect of diet and the persistence of the gut microbiota across generations in Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae). We transferred subsets of a single population of D. suzukii to different fruit-based diets (blueberry ( Vaccinium Linnaeus; Ericaceae), raspberry ( Rubus Linnaeus; Rosaceae), and strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa Duchesne;...