期刊
JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY
卷 52, 期 7, 页码 763-770出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2006.04.004
关键词
Drosophila; resource allocation; carbon turnover; sucrose; stable isotopes
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG024360-01, R01 AG021953-03] Funding Source: Medline
Metabolic resources in adults of holometabolous insects may derive either from larval or adult feeding. In Drosophila melanogaster, reproduction and lifespan are differently affected by larval vs. adult resource availability, and it is unknown how larval vs. adult acquired nutrients are differentially allocated to somatic and reproductive function. Here we describe the allocation of carbon derived from dietary sugar in aging female D. melanogaster. Larval and adult flies were fed diets contrasting in sucrose C-13/C-12, from which we determined the extent to which carbon acquired at each stage contributed to adult somatic tissue and to egg manufacture. Dietary sugar is very important in egg provisioning; at every age, roughly one half of the carbon in eggs was derived from sugar, which turned over from predominantly larval to entirely adult dietary sources. Sucrose provided similar to 40% of total somatic carbon, of which adult dietary sucrose came to supply similar to 75%. Unlike in eggs, however, adult acquired sucrose did not entirely replace the somatic carbon from larvally acquired sucrose. Because carbon from larval sucrose appears to be fairly replaceable, larval sucrose cannot be a limiting substrate in resource allocation between reproduction and lifespan. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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