Bacteria presence seems curiously irrelevant to fly lifespan.

Fruit flies scrubbed clean of bacteria do not outlive their grubby siblings, according to researchers from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. The finding, published in this month’s edition of Cell Metabolism, challenges a long-standing view that even harmless ‘commensal’ bacteria force the host organism to expend energy on their management, an obligation organisms find it harder to meet as they grow older.

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Bacteria presence seems curiously irrelevant to fly lifespan.

Fruit flies scrubbed clean of bacteria do not outlive their grubby siblings, according to researchers from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. The finding, published in this month’s edition of Cell Metabolism, challenges a long-standing view that even harmless ‘commensal’ bacteria force the host organism to expend energy on their management, an obligation organisms find it harder to meet as they grow older.

Read more here.