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Revised Distribution of Bactrocera tryoni in Eastern Australia and Effect on Possible Incursions of Mediterranean Fruit Fly: Development of Australia’s Eastern Trading Block

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Distinct Shifts in Microbiota Composition during Drosophila Aging Impair Intestinal Function and Drive Mortality

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Exploitation of the Medfly Gut Microbiota for the Enhancement of Sterile Insect Technique: Use of Enterobacter sp. in Larval Diet-Based Probiotic Applications

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Acetic Acid Bacteria Genomes Reveal Functional Traits for Adaptation to Life in Insect Guts

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Bacterial Communities in the Gut and Reproductive Organs of Bactrocera minax (Diptera: Tephritidae) Based on 454 Pyrosequencing

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Development of probiotic diets for the olive fly: evaluation of their effects on fly longevity and fecundity

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Fitness Improvement of Mass-Reared Sterile Males of Ceratitis capitata (Vienna 8 strain) (Diptera: Tephritidae) After Gut Enrichment With Probiotics

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Mosquito-Bacteria Symbiosis: The Case of Anopheles gambiae and Asaia

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The Effects of Alignment Quality, Distance Calculation Method, Sequence Filtering, and Region on the Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene-Based Studies

(2010) Patrick D. Schloss   PLoS Computational Biology

Establishment and Vertical Passage of Enterobacter (Pantoea) agglomerans and Klebsiella pneumoniae through All Life Stages of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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Comparison of Species Richness Estimates Obtained Using Nearly Complete Fragments and Simulated Pyrosequencing-Generated Fragments in 16S rRNA Gene-Based Environmental Surveys

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The Olive Fly Endosymbiont, "Candidatus Erwinia dacicola," Switches from an Intracellular Existence to an Extracellular Existence during Host Insect Development

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Influence of fruit ripeness and salt concentration on the microbial processing of Arbequina table olives

(2009) Albert Hurtado et al.   FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

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(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Manipulation of the microbiota of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) improves sterile male sexual performance

(2009) Eyal Ben Ami et al.   ISME Journal

Bacteria-diet interactions affect longevity in the medfly -Ceratitis capitata

(2009) M. Ben-Yosef et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

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(2009) P. Sacchetti et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

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Decreased Diversity of the Fecal Microbiome in RecurrentClostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea

(2008) Ju Young Chang et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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(2008) A. BEHAR et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   NATURE

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