The Effect of Rolled Oats on the Heat Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
Author : Leena BN, Chandana M, Nikhil N Urs, Lochan Veer Gowda HE and Krishna MS
Abstract :
The quality and amount of nutrients that an organism consumes have a significant impact on its ability to withstand stress, its life cycle characteristics, and its ability to reproduce. Animals need to balance their energy intake and expenditure in order to live and reproduce. The ability of living organisms to adapt their physiology, behaviour, or development to changing environmental conditions is due to availability of food and nutrients and by this, flies and other organism adjust to various types of environmental stress. This study shows how the oats effect the heat resistance in Drosophila melanogaster, which is cultured in wheat cream agar and mixed oats media. According to the results, flies fed with wheat cream agar media were more heat resistant than those fed mixed oat media. This indicates that the media containing mixed oats had not supplied enough nourishment to tolerate high temperatures. Additionally, this study also demonstrates that in all diets, females (both virgin and mated) were more heat resistant than males (virgin and mated). Furthermore, compared to mated male, unmated male showed more resistance to heat and mated female were more heat resistant than unmated female. Thus, oats supplement in their diet has a negative effect on ability to withstand heat in D. melanogaster.
Keywords :
Diet, Heat resistance, D. melanogaster, Mated, Unmated (Virgins).
