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This project investigates how nectar-feeding bats have adapted genetically to thrive on high sugar diets. By analyzing the genomes of these bats and their relatives, the research aims to uncover the genetic basis for their unique metabolic adaptations and resilience to glucose toxicity.
Diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance are major threats to human health.
These conditions are linked to obesity and poor diet but also have major genetic components.
To date, most knowledge of the genetics of sugar metabolism and diabetes comes from epidemiological studies of humans and lab studies of mice.
However, novel powerful insights might also be obtained by studying novel non-model species that have undergone evolutionary adaptations for subsisting on high sugar diets.
Among mammals, b…
QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
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