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Intestinal yeast mycobiota were studied in 14 species ofDrosophila and in the drosophilid speciesChymomyza amoena, captured at Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario. Over 56 yeast species, some undescribed, were isolated. These yeast communities were compared with those from two similar surveys conducted in western portions of North America. The community structures were influenced significantly by the habitat rather than phylogeny of the flies. Geographic separation was a factor affecting yeast taxa frequencies in the fly species, but it was largely overshadowed by ecological factors when the communities were described physiologically. The notion that habitats are filled by yeasts which add up to a suitable physiological potential, more or less independently of their taxonomic affinities, was thus confirmed.
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This paper is dedicated to Professor Herman Jan Phaff in honor of his 50 years of active research which still continues.
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Lachance, MA., Gilbert, D.G. & Starmer, W.T. Yeast communities associated withDrosophila species and related flies in an eastern oak-pine forest: A comparison with western communities. Journal of Industrial Microbiology 14, 484–494 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01573963
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