Commensal bacteria play a role in mating preference of Drosophila melanogaster
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 2 replications of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 mixed, 1 failed. The earliest on record is from 2015.
Replications
- Choosing mates based on the diet of your ancestors: replication of non-genetic assortative mating in Drosophila melanogaster, Najarro et al. (2015). PeerJ. Outcome recorded: mixed.
Supporting the previous result, we found that a different inbred strain also mated assortatively based on the diets of previous generations. However, we were unable to generate assortative mating in an outbred strain from North Carolina.
Outcome read from the abstract. View paper - Gut microbiomes and reproductive isolation in Drosophila, Leftwich et al. (2017). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Outcome recorded: failed.
we failed to recover previously observed patterns of nonrandom mating and found no evidence that mating preferences were associated with diet or gut bacteria.
Outcome read from the abstract. View paper
Cite this record
Sharon, G., Segal, D., Ringo, J. M., Hefetz, A., Zilber-Rosenberg, I., & Rosenberg, E. (2010). Commensal bacteria play a role in mating preference of Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(46), 20051–20056. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1009906107
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