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