
Obesity is a chronic disease affecting millions of people worldwide. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is an interesting research model to study metabolic and transcriptomic responses to obesogenic diets. However, the sex-specific differences in these responses are still understudied and perhaps underestimated. In this study, we exposed adult male and female Dahomey fruit flies to a standard diet supplemented with sugar, fat, or a combination of both. The exposure to a diet supplemented with 10% sugar and 10% fat efficiently induced an increase in the lipid content in flies, a hallmark for obesity. This increase in lipid content was more prominent in males, while females displayed significant changes in glycogen content. A strong effect of the diets on the ovarian size and number of ma-ture oocytes was also present in females exposed to diets supplemented with fat and a combina-tion of fat and sugar. In both males and females, fat body morphology changed and was associ-ated with an increase in lipid content of fat cells in response to the diets. The expression of me-tabolism-related genes also displayed a strong sexually dimorphic response under normal condi-tions and in response to sugar and/or fat-supplemented diets. Here, we show that the exposure of adult fruit flies to an obesogenic diet containing both sugar and fat allowed studying sexual dimorphism in metabolism and the expression of genes regulating metabolism.
Male, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, HOMEOSTASIS, 3101 Biochemistry and cell biology, EXTENDS LIFE-SPAN, 590, obesogenic diets, 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Microbiology, <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>; obesogenic diets; western diet; metabolism; sexual dimorphism, Article, Animals, Humans, Obesity, <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>, INSULIN-RESISTANCE, Sex Characteristics, Science & Technology, [SDV.MHEP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, INDUCED OBESITY, PATHWAYS, HIGH-SUGAR, STATE, QR1-502, western diet, Drosophila melanogaster, TISSUE, Diet, Western, sexual dimorphism, SECRETION, 3102 Bioinformatics and computational biology, 3206 Medical biotechnology, Drosophila, Female, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, metabolism, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, HIGH-FAT-DIET
Male, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, HOMEOSTASIS, 3101 Biochemistry and cell biology, EXTENDS LIFE-SPAN, 590, obesogenic diets, 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Microbiology, <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>; obesogenic diets; western diet; metabolism; sexual dimorphism, Article, Animals, Humans, Obesity, <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>, INSULIN-RESISTANCE, Sex Characteristics, Science & Technology, [SDV.MHEP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, INDUCED OBESITY, PATHWAYS, HIGH-SUGAR, STATE, QR1-502, western diet, Drosophila melanogaster, TISSUE, Diet, Western, sexual dimorphism, SECRETION, 3102 Bioinformatics and computational biology, 3206 Medical biotechnology, Drosophila, Female, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, metabolism, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, HIGH-FAT-DIET
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