Influence of Lab Adapted Natural Diet and Microbiota on Life History and Metabolic Phenotype of .

Symbiotic microbiota can help its host to overcome nutritional challenges, which is consistent with a holobiont theory of evolution. Our project investigated the effects produced by the microbiota community, acquired from the environment and horizontal transfer, on metabolic traits related to obesity. The study applied a novel approach of raising , from ten wild-derived genetic lines on naturally fermented peaches, preserving genuine microbial conditions.