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Limiting intake of a non-essential amino acid brings surprising benefits in fruit fly study
Feeding female fruit flies a diet low in the amino acid tyrosine improves their ability to endure food shortage, reduces their reproductive output, and causes them to live longer, RIKEN ...
Flies fed restricted diet in early adulthood found to live longer
Fruit flies live considerably longer when fed a diet that limits consumption of a certain amino acid during early adulthood, ...
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Effect of Adult Diet on Longevity of Sterile Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)
90, No. 4, Dec., 2007 Effect of Adult Diet on Longevity of Ste... Fly longevity is critical to sterile release programs for Mediterranean fruit flies (medflies) because the longer sterile flies are ...
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First detailed map of fruit fly brain links to human ‘master’ clock
Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily ...
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Gene editing can make fruit flies into ‘monarch flies’
Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins Gene-edited fruit flies have gained some of monarch butterflies’ superpowers — specifically, the ability to ...