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Dietary utilization of aliphatic alcohols byDrosophila

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Metabolic utilization was measured by the increase in life duration of adults receiving a low concentration of alcohol as the sole energy source. Flies were able to use primary alcohols as food in the following order: butanol > ethanol > propanol. Methanol and secondary alcohols were not metabolized. These results cannot be explained by considering only the specific activity of alcohol dehydrogenase upon these substrates.

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  1. Laboratoire d'Entomologie expérimentale et de Génétique, and Laboratoire de Biométrie, Université Claude Bernard, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France

    J. Van Herrewege, J. R. David & R. Grantham

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Acknowledgments. We thank Mrs De Scheemaeker-Louis for doing the electrophoretic analysis.

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Van Herrewege, J., David, J.R. & Grantham, R. Dietary utilization of aliphatic alcohols byDrosophila. Experientia 36, 846–847 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01978606

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