Here is a list of the recipes that we use to keep our fly stocks health and happy: See also our List of Ingredients.

2024年3月23日 · Drosophila melanogaster is unique among animal models because it has a fully defined synthetic diet available to study nutrient-gene interactions. However, use of this diet is limited to adult...

2019年2月1日 · Drosophila diets are often formulated on the basis of yeast, maize, sucrose, and agar [3, 4]. However, the nutrient composition can vary substantially among these recipes. Moreover, sometimes, other ingredients including glucose, …

Bad food is often simply dry food. Seemingly small changes in the cooking process can make a significant difference in the quality of the food if those changes result in increased water loss.

2025年2月4日 · For the model organism Drosophila melanogaster, existing holidic diets are unable to support the rapid growth characteristic of the larval stage. Here, we use a nutrient co-optimization strategy across more than 50 diet variants to design HolFast, a holidic medium tailored to fast larval growth and development.

We report such a method, based on measurement of feeding frequency by proboscis-extension, validated by short-term measurements of food dye intake. We used the method to demonstrate that (a) female flies feed more frequently than males, (b) flies feed more often when housed in larger groups and (c) fly feeding varies at different times of the day.

2019年12月17日 · Drosophila used in various toxicological or metabolic studies often involve oral intake of various nanoparticles, pathogens, antibiotics and molecules to study metabolism, and this is done by mixing the compounds with fly food in proper concentration. This chapter describes the modification of fly food with various treatments such as the ...

2014年3月30日 · Here, we compare several common Drosophila feeding assays: the capillary feeder (CAFE), food labeling with a radioactive tracer or colorimetric dye and observations of proboscis extension (PE).

In the laboratory, the typical Drosophila melanogaster diet is composed of agar, yeast, a sugar source, and cornmeal. However, in reality dietary compositions vary greatly across laboratories, making it difficult to clearly define the composition of a “standard” fly diet.

2018年4月18日 · Drosophila is increasingly recognized as a model organism in food and nutrition research. Drosophila is often fed complex solid diets based on yeast, corn, and agar. There are also so-called holidic diets available that are defined in terms of their amino acid, fatty acid, carbohydrate, vitamin, mineral, and trace element compositions.