The presumption is, of course, that the fly, deprived of its means of subsistence, died of starvation.
Such features were rapidly disrupted, however, once starvation began.
As pyruvate is produced by glycolysis and consumed by gluconeogenesis, parasite-induced starvation of the host should result in a depletion of hepatocellular pyruvate.
Parental nutrition might influence offspring energy reserves and aptitude to undergo periods of starvation at the end of diapause.
That would lead to massive deaths from starvation and cold (the severity of both depending slightly on timing).
Certainly some of the prints showed starvation and famine so severe that money and supplies must have been wanted.
One daughter was born successfully after maternal starvation, but in this case the grand-daughter failed to establish.
With continued environmental degradation, the argument continues, agricultural production will decline, food deficits will increase and poverty and starvation will result.
