Biologists at UC San Diego have identified the molecular mechanisms triggered by starvation in fruit flies that enhance the nervous system's response to smell, allowing these insects and presumably vertebrates - including humans - to become more efficient and voracious foragers when hungry.It won't.
Their discovery of the neural changes that control odor-driven food searches in flies, which they detail in a paper in the April 1 issue of the journal Cell, could provide a new way to potentially regulate human appetite.
More heavy hitters in the expanding fatso menagerie:
Rodents:
The Fruit fly:
Birds:
Worms:
Marmots:
But, why bother? The only animal you need is:
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