Commensal bacteria and essential amino acids control food choice behavior and reproduction

PLoS Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Leitão Gonçalves, Ricardo ^a   Carvalho Santos, Zita ^a   Francisco, Ana Patrícia ^a   Fioreze, Gabriela Tondolo ^a   Anjos, Margarida ^a   Baltazar, Célia ^a   Elias, Ana Paula ^a   Itskov, Pavel M ^a   Piper, Matthew D W ^b   Ribeiro, Carlos ^a  

^a CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; DRUG MIXTURE;

ACETOBACTER; ACETOBACTER POMORUM; ADULT; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LIFESPAN; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; ACETOBACTERACEAE; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFICIENCY; DRIED YEAST; DRUG MIXTURE; EGG LAYING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ACETOBACTER; ACETOBACTERACEAE; AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APPETITE REGULATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPLEX MIXTURES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LACTOBACILLUS; OVIPOSITION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; YEAST, DRIED;

EID: 85019023346     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2000862     Document Type: Article

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