The gut microbiome is increasingly recognized to play an important role in shaping the
health and fitness of animals, including humans. Drosophila is emerging as a valuable …

Gut microbiota research is an emerging field that improves our understanding of the
ecological and functional dynamics of gut environments. The honey bee gut microbiota is a …

Insects' intestinal microbes have profound effects on the host's physiological traits, which
can impact their physiology at both the local (gut) and systemic (body) levels. Nevertheless …

Organisms are locally adapted when members of a population have a fitness advantage in
one location relative to conspecifics in other geographies. For example, across latitudinal …

With its contribution to nutrition, development, and disease resistance, gut microbiome has
been recognized as a crucial component of the animal's health and well-being. Microbiome …

The olfactory cues used by various animals to detect and identify food items often include
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by food-associated microorganisms. Microbial …

Over the past decade, the scientific committee has called for broadening our horizons in
understanding host–microbe interactions and infectious disease progression. Owing to the …

An explosion of studies in recent years has established the ubiquity of host-associated
microbes and their centrality to host biology (McFall-Ngai etal., 2013; Russell, Dubilier, & …

Drosophila melanogaster is an important model for antiviral immunity in arthropods, but very
few DNA viruses have been described from the family Drosophilidae. This deficiency limits …

Highlights•Omics report global patterns of metabolic function in insect–microbial
symbioses.•Genes identified from metagenomics define capacity for metabolic …