drosophila regulate yeast density and increase yeast community similarity in a natural substrate果蝇调节酵母密度和增加酵母社区自然基质相似.pdfVIP

Drosophila Regulate Yeast Density and Increase Yeast Community Similarity in a Natural Substrate 1 2 3 4 Judy A. Stamps *, Louie H. Yang , Vanessa M. Morales , Kyria L. Boundy-Mills 1 Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Entomology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, 3 Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America Abstract Drosophila melanogaster adults and larvae, but especially larvae, had profound effects on the densities and community structure of yeasts that developed in banana fruits. Pieces of fruit exposed to adult female flies previously fed fly- conditioned bananas developed higher yeast densities than pieces of the same fruits that were not exposed to flies, supporting previous suggestions that adult Drosophila vector yeasts to new substrates. However, larvae alone had dramatic effects on yeast density and species composition. When yeast densities were compared in pieces of the same fruits assigned to different treatments, fruits that developed low yeast densities in the absence of flies developed significantly higher yeast densities when exposed to larvae. Across all of the fruits, larvae regulated yeast densities within narrow limits, as compared to a much wider range of yeast densities that developed in pieces of the same fruits not exposed to flies. Larvae also affected yeast species composition, dramatically reducing species