The digestive tract of Drosophila melanogaster

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 377-404

  Lemaitre, Bruno ^a   Miguel Aliaga, Irene ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MRC CLINICAL SCIENCES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption; Digestion; Drosophila; Enteric nervous system; Enteroendocrine cells; Gut; Immunity; Intestine

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE ABSORPTION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GROWTH REGULATION; IMMUNITY; INSECT GENOME; INTESTINE FLORA; MIDGUT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENESCENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; DIET; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENTEROENDOCRINE CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; LARVA; LONGEVITY; MUCUS;

EID: 84888602564     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-111212-133343     Document Type: Review

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