Dicate that trade-off between fitness traits may exist when dietary protein content is varied. This may potentially have consequences for populations (including human populations) that in recent times have changed their diet fundamentally. Our data suggest that such a change may simply provide an immediate challenge to the generations exposed to the change. Evolutionary adaptation to the new diet may potentially produce an additional risk diet through unfavorable trade-offs. We show many surprising differences in stress adaptation, 
life history traits and reproduction between flies developed on two different nutritional regimes. These data raise issues about the role of diet and specifically the dietary Protein: Carbohydrate ratio in maintaining variation for these traits within and among population. So, the ability to use different food sources is likely to be under strong selection if organisms are faced with natural variation in macro-nutrients (protein, carbohydrate and lipid) availabilities. Thus, our results that nutrition affects resistance towards a variety of stress types in Drosophila ananassae is interesting in an ecological, an evolutionary as well as in a physiological context. The quality of diet at larval stage plays a crucial role in flies’ responses to cope with different challenges such as reproduction, survivorship and stress resistance. This indicates that selection pressure on the ability to handle these tasks will interact with the nutritional conditions.AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Prof. V. Loeschcke for his valuable suggestions during the course of this study especially in statistical analysis and two anonymous order Avasimibe reviewers for their helpful comments on the original draft of the manuscript.Author ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: BNS SS. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: BNS SS. Wrote the paper: BNS SS.
Vitamin E (a-tocopherol) was discovered almost 90 years ago because rats fed an a-tocopherol deficient diet failed 
to carry their offspring to term; the fetuses were resorbed approximately 9 days into pregnancy [1]. Although the fetal-resorption test is still used to define the international units for vitamin E [2], the cause of the embryonic failure has never been characterized. Likely the embryonic delivery system for a-tocopherol involves the atocopherol transfer protein (TTP) because in the adult liver TTP facilitates a-tocopherol transfer into the plasma. Humans with TTPA gene mutations demonstrate a heritable disorder: ataxia with vitamin E deficiency (AVED, OMIM #277460), which manifests in infancy and childhood. TTP, however, is not exclusively a liver protein; it is expressed in human yolk sac [3]; and has been detected in mammalian placental and uterine cells [4?]. Previously, we utilized the zebrafish model to separate the maternal and embryonic requirements, and to characterize the ASP015K web molecular defect of embryonic vitamin E deficiency. We reported that a-tocopherol-deficient fish spawn and produce viable eggs, but within days the embryos and larvae display developmentalimpairment and increased risk of mortality [7], establishing a critical embryonic need for a-tocopherol. Zebrafish nutrients are derived solely from the yolk sac for the initial 4? days post fertilization. After demonstrating the embryonic requirement for vitamin E we next queried how a-tocopherol is transferred into the embryo during development. We hypothesized that 1) zebrafish express a protein homolog.Dicate that trade-off between fitness traits may exist when dietary protein content is varied. This may potentially have consequences for populations (including human populations) that in recent times have changed their diet fundamentally. Our data suggest that such a change may simply provide an immediate challenge to the generations exposed to the change. Evolutionary adaptation to the new diet may potentially produce an additional risk diet through unfavorable trade-offs. We show many surprising differences in stress adaptation, life history traits and reproduction between flies developed on two different nutritional regimes. These data raise issues about the role of diet and specifically the dietary Protein: Carbohydrate ratio in maintaining variation for these traits within and among population. So, the ability to use different food sources is likely to be under strong selection if organisms are faced with natural variation in macro-nutrients (protein, carbohydrate and lipid) availabilities. Thus, our results that nutrition affects resistance towards a variety of stress types in Drosophila ananassae is interesting in an ecological, an evolutionary as well as in a physiological context. The quality of diet at larval stage plays a crucial role in flies’ responses to cope with different challenges such as reproduction, survivorship and stress resistance. This indicates that selection pressure on the ability to handle these tasks will interact with the nutritional conditions.AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Prof. V. Loeschcke for his valuable suggestions during the course of this study especially in statistical analysis and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the original draft of the manuscript.Author ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: BNS SS. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: BNS SS. Wrote the paper: BNS SS.
Vitamin E (a-tocopherol) was discovered almost 90 years ago because rats fed an a-tocopherol deficient diet failed to carry their offspring to term; the fetuses were resorbed approximately 9 days into pregnancy [1]. Although the fetal-resorption test is still used to define the international units for vitamin E [2], the cause of the embryonic failure has never been characterized. Likely the embryonic delivery system for a-tocopherol involves the atocopherol transfer protein (TTP) because in the adult liver TTP facilitates a-tocopherol transfer into the plasma. Humans with TTPA gene mutations demonstrate a heritable disorder: ataxia with vitamin E deficiency (AVED, OMIM #277460), which manifests in infancy and childhood. TTP, however, is not exclusively a liver protein; it is expressed in human yolk sac [3]; and has been detected in mammalian placental and uterine cells [4?]. Previously, we utilized the zebrafish model to separate the maternal and embryonic requirements, and to characterize the molecular defect of embryonic vitamin E deficiency. We reported that a-tocopherol-deficient fish spawn and produce viable eggs, but within days the embryos and larvae display developmentalimpairment and increased risk of mortality [7], establishing a critical embryonic need for a-tocopherol. Zebrafish nutrients are derived solely from the yolk sac for the initial 4? days post fertilization. After demonstrating the embryonic requirement for vitamin E we next queried how a-tocopherol is transferred into the embryo during development. We hypothesized that 1) zebrafish express a protein homolog.