Tag: genetics

Quick post: Drosophila Genotype Influences Commensal Bacterial Levels in Lab Reared Flies

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Animals and the Built Environment
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Just a quick post here.  This is an interesting paper on how genotype of Drosophila influences their microbiome. As a side story – I think flies could become an interesting and useful model for studying how the built environment (e.g., vials, cages, food, etc) influence microbiomes. Host genotype can influence the composition of the commensal …

Habitat on Humanity

By Andrew Stump   Posted in News
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When the average person hears the terms “microbiology” and “genetics,” often mental images involving lab coats, complicated chemical reactions, forensic TV shows, and futuristic advancements come to mind. However, just this week, a team of scientists at the University of York published a paper in “Nature Genetics” (Christina Warinner et al, Pathogens and host immunity in …