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Natural variation in plasticity of glucose homeostasis and food intake.
The Journal of experimental biology - 1 Oct 2008
Kaun Karla R, Chakaborty-Chatterjee Munmun, Sokolowski Marla B
Abstract excerpt
Balancing the acquisition, allocation and storage of energy during periods of food deprivation is critical for survival. We show that natural variation in the foraging (for) gene, which encodes a cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, affects behavioral and physiological responses to short-term food deprivation. Rover and sitter, natural allelic variants of for, differ in...
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