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Motus Vita Est: Fruit Flies Need to Be More Active and Sleep Less to Adapt to Either a Longer or Harder Life.

Lyudmila P ZakharenkoDmitrii V PetrovskiiMargarita A BobrovskikhNataly E GruntenkoEkaterina Y YakovlevaAlexander V MarkovArcady A Putilov
Published in: Clocks & sleep (2023)
Flies become more active and sleep less in response to various selection pressures. These beneficial changes in trait values might be relevant to trade-offs among fitness-related traits, such as body weight, fecundity, and longevity.
Keyphrases
  • body weight
  • physical activity
  • drosophila melanogaster
  • sleep quality
  • genome wide
  • dna methylation