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No sugar, just protein please — says the fly

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Malita, Kubrak et al. identify a circuit that drives food-specific appetites in Drosophila orchestrated by gut-derived Neuropeptide F.

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Fig. 1: Gut-derived hormonal circuit driving food-specific appetites in Drosophila.

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Petsakou, A., Perrimon, N. No sugar, just protein please — says the fly. Nat Metab 4, 1436–1437 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-022-00665-y

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