Microbes Promote Amino Acid Harvest to Rescue Undernutrition in Drosophila

Microbes play an important role in the pathogenesis of nutritional disorders such as protein-specific malnutrition. However, the precise contribution of microbes to host energy balance during undernutrition is unclear. Here, we show that Issatchenkia orientalis, a fungal microbe isolated from field-...

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Main Authors: Ryuichi Yamada, Sonali A. Deshpande, Kimberley D. Bruce, Elizabeth M. Mak, William W. Ja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-02-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124715000315