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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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Mass Production of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly at Metapa, Mexico
The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 467-477 (11 pages) The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae), was discovered in Guatemala ...
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Healthy fats like omega-3s may prevent motor neuron disease and dementia
A new study suggests that increasing omega-3 fatty acids in the brain could help slow the progression of motor neuron disease (MND). Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that ...