An Orchestra Without a Conductor: How Diet Tunes Stress Resilience in Flies
A Drosophila fly sits in a test tube and endures five different troubles: hunger, thirst, heat, cold and too much salt. Each trial lasts until the fly stops moving. It used to seem that all these abilities to hold up under pressure were linked, like the musicians of one orchestra: if one instrument plays louder, the others follow along. A new diet experiment has shown that this orchestra has no conductor.