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CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages 157-166Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2019.09.004
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [HU 2474/1-1]
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Feeding is fundamental to any heterotroph organism; in its role to quell hunger it overrides most other motivational states. But feeding also literally opens the door to harmful risks, especially for a saprophagous animal like Drosophila; ingestion of poisonous substrate can lead to irreversible damage. Thus feeding incorporates a series of steps with several checkpoints to guarantee that the ingestion remains beneficial and provides a balanced diet, or the feeding process is interrupted. Subsequently, we will summarize and describe the feeding process in Drosophila in a comprehensive manner. We propose eleven distinct steps for feeding, grouped into four categories, to address our current knowledge of prandial regulatory mechanisms in Drosophila.
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