Dietary restriction affects lifespan but not cognitive aging in Drosophila melanogaster

• Published in: Aging cell Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 327 - 335
• Main Authors: Burger, Joep M.S., Buechel, Séverine D., Kawecki, Tadeusz J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2010
• Subjects: age‐related memory impairment; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Caloric Restriction; Cognition; Drosophila; Drosophila melanogaster; Drosophila melanogaster - physiology; Female; functional aging; Learning; Longevity; memory

Summary Dietary restriction extends lifespan in a wide variety of animals, including Drosophila, but its relationship to functional and cognitive aging is unclear. Here, we study the effects of dietary yeast content on fly performance in an aversive learning task (association between odor and mechan...