Experimental Studies on the Duration of Life. XIII. The Influence of Different Feeding during the Larval and Imaginal Stages on the Duration of Life of the Imago of Drosophila melanogaster
- 1 January 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 64 (690) , 37-55
- https://doi.org/10.1086/280297
Abstract
While duration of life in Drosophila at different temp. follows an exponential curve, duration of life for different grades of intermittent starvation follows a logistic curve. The duration of life is not shortened by taking the larvae from the food before the end of the normal feeding period. Reduced body size does not lead inevitably to shorter life. Absence of yeast shortens life greatly. Males, but not [female][female], show shorter life when changed to new bottles daily.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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