Article
A high sugar diet, but not obesity, reduces female fertility in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
2023-03-03
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Many studies from Drosophila to humans show a strong link between obesity and reduced fertility. However, obesity is often induced by changes in diet or eating behavior, such that it remains unclear whether reduced fertility is a consequence of obesity itself, diet, or both. Here, we report that a high sugar diet reduces Drosophila female fertility by increasing death of early germline cysts (...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b3b29878-e550-5243-9374-10349316c60c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.03.02.530894
