Nutritional Physiology: Sex Elicits a Taste for Salt in Drosophila.
Increased salt intake has been found to boost egg production in Drosophila. Females develop a specific appetite for salt following mating. This is not triggered by demand for sodium from developing eggs, but by release of a Sex Peptide into the female's reproductive tract by the male during mating.
Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address: stephen.simpson@sydney.edu.au.
Stephen J
SJ
Simpson
Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; The Faculty of Veterinary Science, the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
David
D
Raubenheimer
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D012982:Sodium, Dietary