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Dietary Restriction Extends Lifespan in Wild-Derived Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Metaxakis, A; Partridge, L; (2013) Dietary Restriction Extends Lifespan in Wild-Derived Populations of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One , 8 (9) , Article e74681. 10.1371/journal.pone.0074681. Green open access

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Abstract

Dietary restriction (DR) can result in lifespan-extension and improved function and health during ageing. Although the impact of DR on lifespan and health has been established in a variety of organisms, most DR experiments are carried out on laboratory strains that have often undergone adaptation to laboratory conditions. The effect of DR on animals recently derived from wild populations is rarely assessed. We measured the DR response of four populations of Drosophila melanogaster within two generations of collection from the wild. All populations responded to DR with an increase in lifespan and a decrease in female fecundity, similarly to a control, laboratory-adapted strain. These effects of DR are thus not a result of adaptation to laboratory conditions, and reflect the characteristics of natural populations.

Type: Article
Title: Dietary Restriction Extends Lifespan in Wild-Derived Populations of Drosophila melanogaster
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074681
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074681
Language: English
Additional information: © 2013 Metaxakis, Partridge. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3769260
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1415809
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