A Functional Analysis of the Purine Salvage Pathway in Acetobacter fabarum.

species are a major component of the gut microbiome of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a widely used model organism. While a range of studies have illuminated impacts of on their hosts, less is known about how association with the host impacts bacteria. A previous study identified that a purine salvage locus was commonly found in associated with .