Misalignment of plastic and evolutionary responses of lifespan to novel carbohydrate diets.

ABSTRACT: Diet elicits varied effects on longevity across a wide range of animal species where dietary discordance between an organisms' evolutionary and developmental dietary history is increasingly recognized to play a critical role in shaping lifespan. However, whether such changes, predominantly assessed in a single generation, lead to evolutionary shifts in lifespan remains unclear. In this study, we used an experimental evolution approach to test whether changes in an organisms' evolutionary and developmental dietary history, specifically carbohydrate content, causes lifespan evolution in Drosophila serrata. After 30 generations, we investigated the evolutionary potential of lifespan in response to four novel diets that varied systematically in their ratio of carbohydrate-protein conten

SUBMITTER: Narayan VP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10791524 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature