For example, eat-2 (ad1116), had significantly different feeding measurements than any of the other three eat-2 alleles, ad453, ad465, and ad1113; while eat- 6 ad467) was significantly different from eat-6 ad792 eat-6 ad792
For the amount of label in the fly to reflect feeding, measurements must therefore be confined to the time period before label egestion commences, about 40 minutes in Drosophila, a time period during which disturbance of the flies affects their feeding behaviour.
Body weight and feeding measurements, and tolerance tests were performed as described previously [ 15, 17].
The place for taking the feeding measurements was in the mother-child care centre, or at mother's home.
In order to obtain more homogeneity in the feeding measurements, the NUK First Choice latex teat (MAPA GmbH, Zeven, Germany) was used by all the bottle fed babies.
All of the free feeding measurements took place 140 minutes postinjection of the drug and so we can not exclude that the lack of effect is partially due to wash out of the drug.
Typically, we found that feeding the medium OP50 (50% N) resulted in a relative isotope abundance of ∼45% N. The incomplete labeling of proteins had no effect on the feeding measurements, which only depend on the amplitude of the medium isotope component.
Our findings are also supported by a large number of observations, 440 feeding measurements recorded in 110 mother-infant pairs for the age group of 21-28 days and 250 in the 125 mother-infant pair for the age group of 3-5 months.
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However, existing methods for feeding measurement allow observation of only a limited number of nematodes.
