Acetobacter tropicalis increases development rate compared to Lactobacillus brevis treatment
Addition of the AAB species Acetobacter tropicalis to the food resource ( At treatment), 2) addition of the LAB species Lactobacillus brevis to the food resource ( Lb treatment), and 3) no microbial inoculation ( No-Ad treatment). At and Lb strains were selected as representative AAB and LAB based on their different influences on D. melanogaster life history traits, with At- inoculated flies displaying faster development times and shorter periods of starvation resistance than Lb-inoculated flies https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1907787116#sec-1