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A quantitative feeding assay in adult Drosophila reveals rapid modulation of food ingestion by its nutritional value

BACKGROUND: Food intake of the adult fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, an intermittent feeder, is attributed to several behavioral elements including foraging, feeding initiation and termination, and food ingestion. Despite the development of various feeding assays in fruit flies, how each of these...

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Autores principales: Qi, Wei, Yang, Zhe, Lin, Ziao, Park, Jin-Yong, Suh, Greg S. B., Wang, Liming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26692189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13041-015-0179-x