Fruit flies die early because they cannot be loved

Research by US scientists at the University of Michigan showed that when male fruit flies were stimulated but not mated, they could produce disease and die early.

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Dr. Scott Pletcher and colleagues conducted experiments to stimulate mating behavior in male fruit flies but prevented them from performing this behavior.

The team released normal male fruit flies adjacent to genetically modified male flies. These transgenic male flies secrete pheromone sex hormones like female flies. This hormone helps males to be aware of the situation of mating and stimulation. However, at the end of the male fly it is impossible to mate because the object is also a male.

The unresponsive but eventually unresponsive male fruit fly proved to be stressed, reducing the amount of fat stored in the body and the flow of life was significantly reduced, about 40%.

Stimulated but unmixed male fruit flies can cause disease and die early.(Photo of BBC)

Fruit flies normally have a life span of about 60 days, which scientists consider to be the ideal organism to study the aging effects of life-regulating genes and this has been reported to be nearly equivalent. human.

Scientists pay attention to nerve cells, especially chemicals produced by nerve cells called neuropeptide F (NPF) . When male flies approach the female pheromone but do not have the chance to mate, the level of NPF in the body will increase. When NPF increases, it will cause physiological damage and mating will adjust NPF to normal.