Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88371
Title: The Drosophila microbiome has a limited influence on sleep, activity, and courtship behaviors
Authors: Selkrig, Joel
Mohammad, Farhan
Ng, Soon Hwee
Chua, Jia Yi
Tumkaya, Tayfun
Ho, Joses
Chiang, Yin Ning
Rieger, Dirk
Pettersson, Sven
Helfrich-Förster, Charlotte
Yew, Joanne Y.
Claridge-Chang, Adam
Keywords: Microbiome
Drosophila
DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
DRNTU::Science::Medicine
Issue Date: 2018
Source: Selkrig, J., Mohammad, F., Ng, S. H., Chua, J. Y., Tumkaya, T., Ho, J., . . . Claridge-Chang, A. (2018). The Drosophila microbiome has a limited influence on sleep, activity, and courtship behaviors. Scientific Reports, 8,10646-. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-28764-5
Series/Report no.: Scientific Reports
Abstract: In animals, commensal microbes modulate various physiological functions, including behavior. While microbiota exposure is required for normal behavior in mammals, it is not known how widely this dependency is present in other animal species. We proposed the hypothesis that the microbiome has a major influence on the behavior of the vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster), a major invertebrate model organism. Several assays were used to test the contribution of the microbiome on some well-characterized behaviors: defensive behavior, sleep, locomotion, and courtship in microbe-bearing, control flies and two generations of germ-free animals. None of the behaviors were largely influenced by the absence of a microbiome, and the small or moderate effects were not generalizable between replicates and/or generations. These results refute the hypothesis, indicating that the Drosophila microbiome does not have a major influence over several behaviors fundamental to the animal’s survival and reproduction. The impact of commensal microbes on animal behaviour may not be broadly conserved.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88371
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45761
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28764-5
Schools: School of Biological Sciences 
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) 
Organisations: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
Rights: © 2018 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/.
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