fmicb-11-00505 April 6, 2020 Time: 20:39 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 08 April 2020 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00505 New Insights Into Culturable and Unculturable Bacteria Across the Life History of Medicinal Maggots Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Naseh Maleki-Ravasan1,2, Nahid Ahmadi1,3†, Zahra Soroushzadeh1,3†, Abbas Ali Raz1, Edited by: Sedigheh Zakeri1* and Navid Dinparast Djadid1* Simon Bahrndorff, Aalborg University, Denmark 1 Malaria and Vector Research Group, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, 2 Department 3 Reviewed by: of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Sciences Juraj Majtan, and Technology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Independent Researcher, Bratislava, Slovakia Because of the nutritional ecology of dung- and carrion-feeding, bacteria are the integral Ales Lapanje, Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia part of Lucilia sericata life cycle. Nevertheless, the disinfected larvae of the blowfly are Damien Charabidze, applied to treat human chronic wounds in a biosurgery named maggot debridement Université de Lille, France therapy (MDT). To realize the effects of location/diet on the gut bacteria, to infer the role *Correspondence: Sedigheh Zakeri of bacteria in the blowfly ecology plus in the MDT process, and to disclose bacteria
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[email protected] culture-based and culture-independent methods. In total, 265 bacteria, including 20 †These authors have contributed equally to this work families, 28 genera, and 40 species, were identified in many sources of the L.