Enhanced Locomotor Activity Is Required to Exert Dietary Restriction-Dependent Increase of Stress Resistance in Drosophila

Figure 3

Wing clipping decreases flies’ ability to resist starvation stress. (a) Normal (closed circles) and wing-clipped (open circles) adult flies were reared on restricted diet (DR, 0.5% YE). At the age of 10 days, flies were transferred to 1% agar media to examine their ability to resist starvation stress. Survivorship curves were built by scoring dead flies every 4 hours. (b) The same experiment as described in (a) was performed with the exception that normal (closed triangles) and wing-clipped (open triangles) adult flies were reared on ad libitum (AL, 5% YE) condition. Log-rank test was used to determine statistical significance. , –228 for each group.

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