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Of flies and men: insights on organismal metabolism from fruit flies

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Biology, April 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (80th percentile)
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Title
Of flies and men: insights on organismal metabolism from fruit flies
Published in
BMC Biology, April 2013
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-11-38
Pubmed ID
23587196
Authors

Akhila Rajan, Norbert Perrimon

Abstract

The fruit fly Drosophila has contributed significantly to our general understanding of the basic principles of signaling, cell and developmental biology, and neurobiology. However, answers to questions pertaining to energy metabolism have been so far mostly addressed in more complex model organisms such as mice. We review in this article recent studies that show how the genetic tractability and simplicity of Drosophila are being used to identify novel regulatory mechanisms at the organismal level, and to query the co-ordination between energy metabolism and other processes such as neurodegeneration, circadian rhythms, immunity, and tumor biology.

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Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 3 2%
United States 2 1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Unknown 187 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 60 31%
Researcher 41 21%
Student > Master 21 11%
Student > Bachelor 13 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 13 7%
Other 20 10%
Unknown 26 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 105 54%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 40 21%
Neuroscience 8 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 1%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 26 13%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 February 2015.
All research outputs
#4,623,149
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from BMC Biology
#1,052
of 2,070 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,346
of 198,797 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Biology
#24
of 42 outputs
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