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The nutritional and hedonic value of food modulate sexual receptivity in Drosophila melanogaster females

Food and sex often go hand in hand because of the nutritional cost of reproduction. For Drosophila melanogaster females, this relationship is especially intimate because their offspring develop on food. Since yeast and sugars are important nutritional pillars for Drosophila, availability of these fo...

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Autores principales: Gorter, Jenke A., Jagadeesh, Samyukta, Gahr, Christoph, Boonekamp, Jelle J., Levine, Joel D., Billeter, Jean-Christophe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26777264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep19441