Effect of Rolled Oats on Starvation Resistance of Drosophila melanogaster
Author : Nikhil N Urs, Chandana M, Leena BN, Lochan Veer Gowda HE and Krishna MS
Abstract :
Stress is any alteration in the environment that decreases an organism's fitness. Diet and other external environmental factors can have an impact on environmental stress. For creatures to grow, develop, stay healthy, reproduce, and survive, they need food. The variation in starvation resistance is influenced by the type and amount of nutrients found in various diets. The current study shows effect of rolled oats on starvation withstanding ability in Drosophila melanogaster when it is cultivated in wheat cream agar media and mixed oats media of different concentrations. According to the findings, flies fed with wheat cream agar media were more resistant to starvation than those fed with 25%, 50% and 75% oats media. This demonstrated that increased oats concentration has negative effects to resist starvation compared to wheat cream agar media that provided better energy and nutrition to withstand famine. This experiment also showed that, female flies were more resistant to starvation than male flies. In all the diets, this study also depicted that, mated flies were significantly more resistant to starvation compared to unmated flies. The study suggested that the supplementation of oats along with the sooji in different proportions would not provide the sufficient energy and food storage to withstand the starvation for longer periods. Thus, the ability to resist starvation decreased in the D. melanogaster that fed with oats.
Keywords :
Diet, Starvation resistance, D. melanogaster, Mated, Unmated (Virgins).
