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Dietary lithium stimulates female fecundity in Drosophila melanogaster
| العنوان: | Dietary lithium stimulates female fecundity in Drosophila melanogaster |
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| المؤلفون: | Jans, Katharina, Lüersen, Kai, von Frieling, Jakob, Roeder, Thomas, Rimbach, Gerald |
| المصدر: | BioFactors ; volume 50, issue 2, page 326-346 ; ISSN 0951-6433 1872-8081 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Wiley Online Library (Open Access Articles via Crossref) |
| الوصف: | The trace element lithium exerts a versatile bioactivity in humans, to some extend overlapping with in vivo findings in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster . A potentially essential function of lithium in reproduction has been suggested since the 1980s and multiple studies have since been published postulating a regulatory role of lithium in female gametogenesis. However, the impact of lithium on fruit fly egg production has not been at the center of attention to date. In the present study, we report that dietary lithium (0.1–5.0 mM LiCl) substantially improved life time egg production in D. melanogaster w 1118 females, with a maximum increase of plus 45% when supplementing 1.0 mM LiCl. This phenomenon was not observed in the insulin receptor mutant InR E19 , indicating a potential involvement of insulin‐like signaling in the lithium‐mediated fecundity boost. Analysis of the whole‐body and ovarian transcriptome revealed that dietary lithium affects the mRNA levels of genes encoding proteins related to processes of follicular maturation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on dietary lithium acting as an in vivo fecundity stimulant in D. melanogaster , further supporting the suggested benefit of the trace element in female reproduction. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1002/biof.2007 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/biof.2007 https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/biof.2007 |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.1A66B85F |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1002/biof.2007 |
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