Exploring the metabolic changes of Ceratitis capitata Vienna 8 strain across three developmental stages through probiotic larval diet supplementation
M. Msaad Guerfali, K. Charaabi, H. Hamden, O. Zidi, M. Hamdi, S. Fadhl, S. Kouidhi, A. Cherif, A. Mosbah · 2024
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Msaad Guerfali and co-authors track how probiotic feeding reshapes metabolism in Mediterranean fruit flies bred for release, in a 2024 study. The sterile insect technique floods fields with sterilized males that mate without producing offspring. Probiotics in the larval diet raise the quality of those males. What changes inside the fly was unclear.
Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry profiled fly extracts across three life stages. The Vienna 8 strain, a workhorse of medfly programs, was used. Metabolic shifts followed the probiotic diet stage by stage. Better males mean fewer needed per hectare of crop. Pest control programs gain chemical evidence for the diet upgrade. The work also models insect-diet-microbe links.
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| CREATOR | M. Msaad Guerfali, K. Charaabi, H. Hamden, O. Zidi, M. Hamdi, S. Fadhl, S. Kouidhi, A. Cherif, A. Mosbah |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |