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Reply to “Pitfalls of measuring feeding rate in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster”

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In their Correspondence, Wong et al.1 argue that dye labeling is not a satisfactory technique to address the issue of compensatory feeding and try to generalize this inadequacy to all food labeling methods. While some valid points are raised, others are off the mark.

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  1. Division of Biology 156-29, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, 91125, California, USA

    Gil B Carvalho, William W Ja & Seymour Benzer

  2. Buck Institute for Age Research, 8001 Redwood Blvd., Novato, 94945, California, USA

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Carvalho, G., Ja, W., Kapahi, P. et al. Reply to “Pitfalls of measuring feeding rate in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster” . Nat Methods 5, 215 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0308-215

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