Ceratitis capitata

Mediterranean fruit fly or medfly

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Ceratitis

Image source: Katja Schulz@BY

Ceratitis capitata is a yellow and brown fruit pest that originates from sub-Saharan Africa. C. capitata has no near relatives in the Western Hemisphere and is considered to be one of the most destructive fruit pests in the world. There have been occasional medfly infestations in the states of California, Florida, and Texas that required extensive eradication efforts to prevent the fly from establishing itself in the US.

Host Genome

Scaffold

Genome ID	Level	BUSCO Assessment
GCA_000347755.4	Scaffold	C:99.4%[S:99.3%,D:0.1%],F:0.2%,M:0.4%,n:1367

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Related Symbionts

16 records

Symbiont records associated with Ceratitis capitata

	Classification	Function	Function Tags
Klebsiella oxytoca Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	Klebsiella oxytoca (as part of a probiotic consortium) significantly influences the intestinal microbiota structure, leading to improved functional p…	carbohydrates enzymes
Lactococcus lactis Bacillota	Bacteria	Lactococcus lactis (as part of a probiotic consortium) significantly influences the intestinal microbiota structure, leading to improved functional p…	carbohydrates enzymes
Enterobacter Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	Enterobacter (as part of a probiotic consortium) significantly influences the intestinal microbiota structure, leading to improved functional potenti…	carbohydrates enzymes
Enterobacter sp. AA26 Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	Enterobacter sp. AA26 dry biomass can fully replace brewer’s yeast as a protein source in the medfly larval diet without negatively affecting the pro…	amino acid provision
Gut bacteria -	Bacteria	Gut bacteria (Amplicon data) have a possible involvement in determining resistance to insecticides in Ceratitis capitata.	pesticide metabolization
Enterobacter sp. AA26 Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	Enterobacter sp. AA26 showed positive effects on rearing efficiency when used as larval probiotics for the medfly.	probiotic
Asaia Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	Asaia has a possible involvement in determining resistance to insecticides in Ceratitis capitata.	pesticide metabolization
Wolbachia Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	Wolbachia induces complete Cytoplasmic Incompatibility (CI) in the host.	cytoplasmic incompatibility
bacteria microbiome -	Bacteria	-
Chroococcidiopsis Cyanobacteriota	Bacteria	-
Enterobacter Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	-
gut bacteria -	Bacteria	-
Klebsiella Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	-
Klebsiella Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	-
Propionibacterium Actinomycetota	Bacteria	-
Providencia Pseudomonadota	Bacteria	-

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Metagenome Information

0 records

Metagenome sequencing data associated with Ceratitis capitata

Run	Platform	Location	Date	BioProject
No metagenomes found No metagenome records associated with this host species.

Amplicon Information

12 records

Amplicon sequencing data associated with Ceratitis capitata

Run	Classification	Platform	Location	Environment
SRR13179901 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13179902 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13179904 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13180157 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13180158 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13180182 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13180194 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13180195 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13180198 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13180550 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13180621 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-
SRR13181189 AMPLICON	16S	-	Italy 45.1854 N 9.16222 E	-

8 records

Research articles related to Ceratitis capitata

Title	Authors	Journal	Year	DOI
Probiotic consortium modulating the gut microbiota composition and function of sterile Mediterranean fruit flies	Haytham, H; Kamel, C; Wafa, D ... Ameur, C; Guerfali, MM	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS	2024	10.1038/s41598-023-50679-z
Dynamics of the Gut Bacteriome During a Laboratory Adaptation Process of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Ceratitis capitata	Mokhtar, NB; Catala-Oltra, M; Stathopoulou, P ... Tsiamis, G; Dembilio, O	FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY	2022	10.3389/fmicb.2022.919760
Bacterial Symbionts in Ceratitis capitata	Cappelli, A; Petrelli, D; Gasperi, G ... Damiani, C; Favia, G	Insects	2022	10.3390/insects13050474
Phylogenomics Reveals that Asaia Symbionts from Insects Underwent Convergent Genome Reduction, Preserving an Insecticide-Degrading Gene	Comandatore, F; Damiani, C; Cappelli, A ... Bandi, C; Favia, G	MBIO	2021	10.1128/mbio.00106-21
Biochemical and nutritional characterization of the medfly gut symbiont Enterobacter sp. AA26 for its use as probiotics in sterile insect technique applications	Azis, K; Zerva, I; Melidis, P ... Bourtzis, K; Ntougias, S	BMC BIOTECHNOLOGY	2019	10.1186/s12896-019-0584-9
Enterobacter sp. AA26 gut symbiont as a protein source for Mediterranean fruit fly mass-rearing and sterile insect technique applications	Kyritsis, GA; Augustinos, AA; Ntougias, S ... Bourtzis, K; Cáceres, C	BMC MICROBIOLOGY	2019	10.1186/s12866-019-1651-z
Instar- and host-associated differentiation of bacterial communities in the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata	Malacrinò, A; Campolo, O; Medina, RF; Palmeri, V	PLOS ONE	2018	10.1371/journal.pone.0194131
Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility as a means for insect pest population control	Zabalou, S; Riegler, M; Theodorakopoulou, M ... Savakis, C; Bourtzis, K	PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	2004	10.1073/pnas.0403853101

Core Microbiome Composition

Core microbiome composition is derived from available metagenomic and amplicon sequencing data, calculated based on the relative abundance and coverage of symbionts across different samples. The representativeness of this analysis may vary depending on the number of available samples and should be considered as a reference guide. See calculation details in Help documentation