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Experiment Illustration

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The image represents a fly (front view), the fly brain is outlined in the head, and the 'string of beads' that is spiraling out of it is a string of DNA wrapped around histones (the proteins that can regulate DNA by being epigenetically modified). In front of the fly is a blue sugar drop, the food we use in our feeding behavior experiments. Briefly, the fly represents the animal, the DNA/histones represent DNA and epigenetic regulation, and the drop represents feeding behavior.

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Ina Anreiter, University of Toronto

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