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

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