Eating eggplants as a cucurbit feeder: diet shifts promote
complex gut microbiome responses in the melon fly Zeugodacus
cucurbitae (Diptera, Tephritidae)
Running title: Effect of diet shift on tephritid microbiome
Hendrycks W.1, 2*, Delatte H. 3,
Moquet L.3, Bourtzis, K.4, Mullens
N. 1, 2, De Meyer M. 1, Backeljau
T.2,5, Virgilio M.1
1 Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren,
Belgium
2 Department of
Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
3 CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, La Réunion,
France
4 Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA
Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria
5 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS),
Brussels, Belgium;
Corresponding Author: wouter.hendrycks@africamuseum.be