Brown University scientists conducting experiments with fruit flies found that hunger drives cravings for alcohol, providing context for understanding similar processes in the human brain.
In drosophila, a.k.a. fruit flies. They have a whole different relationship to alcohol, since their lives revolves around rotting fruit where yeast thrives. Drosophila eats yeast.
I mean, you are not wrong, but this is research on the neuronal pathways underlying this behaviour, not research comparing the daily life of fruit flies and men.
You may not be aware but fruitflies are used for many developmental and neuronal research topics since their signalling pathways are pretty similar to the ones found in humans. They are also the origin of some of the quirkiest gene names researchers made up, like the hedgehog gene.
In drosophila, a.k.a. fruit flies. They have a whole different relationship to alcohol, since their lives revolves around rotting fruit where yeast thrives. Drosophila eats yeast.
I mean, you are not wrong, but this is research on the neuronal pathways underlying this behaviour, not research comparing the daily life of fruit flies and men.
You may not be aware but fruitflies are used for many developmental and neuronal research topics since their signalling pathways are pretty similar to the ones found in humans. They are also the origin of some of the quirkiest gene names researchers made up, like the hedgehog gene.