Ten generations of Drosophila melanogast
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E. W. Rapport; D. Stanley-Samuelson; R. H. Dadd
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Article
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1983
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Wild-type Drosophila melanogaster were axenically raised on a completely synthetic fatty acid-free diet for at least ten consecutive generations, confirming that these insects do not require dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids. Capillary column gas-chromatographic analysis of lipids extracted from a