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Communicating the nutritional value of sugar in Drosophila.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Mar 2018
Abu Farhan, Wang Justin G, Oh Yangkyun, Deng Jingjing, Neubert Thomas A, Suh Greg S B
Abstract excerpt
Sweet-insensitive Drosophila mutants are unable to readily identify sugar. In presence of wild-type (WT) flies, however, these mutant flies demonstrated a marked increase in their preference for nutritive sugar. Real-time recordings of starved WT flies revealed that these flies discharge a drop from their gut end after consuming nutritive sugars, but not nonnutritive sugars. We proposed that the drop may contain...
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