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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Claudia Baltzer
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-14058 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
PloS one 20090909 9
MITOCHONDRIA ARE CELLULAR ORGANELLES THAT PERFORM CRITICAL METABOLIC FUNCTIONS: they generate energy from nutrients but also provide metabolites for de novo synthesis of fatty acids and several amino acids. Thus mitochondrial mass and activity must be coordinated with nutrient availability, yet this remains poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that Drosophila larvae grown in low yeast food have strong defects in mitochondrial abundance and respiration activity in the larval fat body. This cor ...[more]