The starving flies also survived up to 28 hours without sleep, three times longer than the flies with access to food. The survivors' ability is probably linked to a gene that helps the fruit-fly brain manage the storage and use of fat molecules, the researchers said.
饑餓的果蠅能在不睡覺的情況下存活28小時,是那些能得到食物的果蠅存活時間的三倍。研究人員稱,這種生存能力可能與幫助果蠅大腦控制脂肪分子存儲與使用的一種基因有關。