Science literature summaries

Mating duration used by different research groups: 15-30 mins (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022191012002259#s0025) 30 mins (https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12322) 90 minutes (https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/22/1/184/232467?login=false) 2 hours (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01973.x) ~15 mins for mating latency + copulation time (https://academic.oup.com/jinsectscience/article/11/1/67/2492817?login=false#90814333)

"bacteriome highly expresses the coleoptericin A (colA) antimicrobial peptide (AMP), which was shown to prevent endosymbiont escape from the bacteriocytes." "This work provides a striking example of how a conserved immune pathway, initially described as essential in pathogen clearance, also functions in the control of mutualistic associations."  https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-017-0397-9

Nucleoproteins are complex structures made up of proteins and nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA.  Histone, protamines, ribosomes,  Spermatids are the cells which are produced from the testes as a result of spermatogenesis .  The spermatids develop into spermatozoa or sperms by the process of spermiogenesis .

D. melanogaster gut microbiome, particularly Lactobacillus plantarum and Acetobacter pomorum, increases the pace of host development (Shin et al., 2011; Storelli et al., 2011).

Reduced Richness and Diversity : Lab-raised flies exhibit significantly lower richness and diversity of bacteria compared to wild-caught flies. Specific Strains : Laboratory flies have bacterial strains closely related to those from previous studies, with five strains being >99% identical to previously identified cultured isolates of D. melanogaster. Enterococcus, which was previously found to comprise nearly 50% of the lab bacterial microbiome, is virtually absent in current lab samples. https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002272#pgen-1002272-g002