The Effects of Royal Jelly on Fitness Traits and Gene Expression in Drosophila melanogaster

ABSTRACT: Royal Jelly (RJ) is a product made by honey bee workers and is required for queen differentiation and accompanying changes in queen body size, development time, lifespan and reproductive output relative to workers. Previous studies have reported similar changes in Drosophila melanogaster in response to RJ. Here, we quantified viability, development time, body size, productivity, lifespan and genome wide transcript abundance of D. melanogaster reared on standard culture medium supplemented with increasing concentrations of RJ. We found that lower concentrations of RJ do induce significant differences in body size in both sexes; higher concentrations reduce size, increase mortality, shorten lifespan and reduce productivity. Increased concentrations of RJ also consistently lengthened developm

ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster

SUBMITTER: Mary Anna Carbone 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-3544 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress