Dietary utilization of aliphatic alcohols byDrosophila |
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| Authors: | J Van Herrewege J R David R Grantham |
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| Institution: | (1) Laboratoire d'Entomologie expérimentale et de Génétique, and Laboratoire de Biométrie, Université Claude Bernard, F-69622 Villeurbanne, (France) |
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| Abstract: | Summary Metabolic utilization was measured by the increase in life duration of adults receiving a low concentration of alcohol as the sole energy source. Flies were able to use primary alcohols as food in the following order: butanol > ethanol > propanol. Methanol and secondary alcohols were not metabolized. These results cannot be explained by considering only the specific activity of alcohol dehydrogenase upon these substrates.Acknowledgments. We thank Mrs De Scheemaeker-Louis for doing the electrophoretic analysis. |
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