Organically Grown Food Provides Health Benefits to Drosophila melanogaster

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chhabra, Ria ^a   Kolli, Santharam ^b   Bauer, Johannes H ^b  

^a Clark High School   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BANANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC FOOD; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POTATO; RAISIN; SOYBEAN; STARVATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; DIET; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERTILITY; FOOD, ORGANIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; INSULIN; LONGEVITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SOYBEANS; STARVATION; VITIS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84872256514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052988     Document Type: Article

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