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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2026

Functional gut microbiomes enhance performance in house fly larvae.

Asmus Toftkær Muurmann, Jacob Agerbo Rasmussen, Morten Tønsberg Limborg, M Thomas P Gilbert, Simon Bahrndorff

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Asmus Toftkær MuurmannDepartment of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.ORCID 0009-0004-0758-9994
Jacob Agerbo RasmussenCenter for Evolutionary Hologenomics, University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-7710-8912
Morten Tønsberg LimborgCenter for Evolutionary Hologenomics, University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-7718-6531
M Thomas P GilbertCenter for Evolutionary Hologenomics, University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-2570-3963
Simon BahrndorffDepartment of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-0838-4008

Funding

Danmarks Grundforskningsfond DNRF143Novo Nordisk Fonden NNF21OC0070910
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a world with an increase in human population, food consumption, and the generation of organic waste, insects are emerging as a promising tool to convert organic waste material into human food or animal feed. The insect microbiome is known to play a key role in the degradation of organic substrates, but little is known about the metabolic potential of the microbiome of industrially reared fly larvae. We investigated the microbial composition and metabolic potential of the house fly ( IMPORTANCE: Fly larvae are expected to play an important role in future food and feed production through the conversion of low-value biomass into high-quality protein. The gut microorganisms of fly larvae are expected to play an important role in bioconversion and could potentially be manipulated to improve biomass conversion. In this study, the importance of the gut bacteria of house fly larvae for bioconversion was investigated by metagenomic sequencing, which provided information on the bacterial abundance and potential functional roles in the larval gut. The results reveal that the functional potential of gut bacteria is affected by larval feed and correlates with larval performance, highlighting the importance of the gut microbiome for efficient biomass conversion.

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BacteriaGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHousefliesAnimalsLarvaby-productshost-microbe interactionshouse flyinsectsmetagenomicsside-streams

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PMID41973542
PMCPMC13188918

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