Fruit fly study sheds light on how organisms regulate feeding/fasting cycles

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Oct 30, 2023, 9:42 am150 pts
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used fruit flies to study how daily eating patterns are regulated. They found that the quasimodo (qsm) gene helped sync feeding to light/dark cycles, but not in constant darkness: instead, the genes clock (clk) and cycle (cyc) keep eating/fasting cycles, while…

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