Ws. Barnes, GLYCOGEN-STORAGE IN NORMAL AND WING-MUTANT STRAINS OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER, Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Physiology, 109(2), 1994, pp. 487-494
Total body weight, total glycogen content and the percentage of body w
eight attributable to stored glycogen were measured in wild-type and t
wo wing-mutant strains of 0-2-day-old (immature) and 5-7-day-old (matu
re) Drosophila melanogaster. Wild-type and wing mutant strains did not
differ significantly in any of the measured parameters at 0-2 days of
age. By 5-7 days of age, significant increases in glycogen content an
d glycogen percent had occurred in both wild-type and wing-mutant stra
ins. Likewise, by 5-7 days of age, total body weight had increased sig
nificantly in the mature wild-type and vestigial strains but not in ap
terous flies. Mature wild-type flies displayed significantly greater t
otal body glycogen content and glycogen percent when compared with the
mature apterous and vestigial wing-mutant strains.