The availability of an essential dietary micronutrient is evaluated by an intestinal signaling system that in turn regulates food-uptake and response behaviors by modulating protease expression.

Micronutrients, not macronutrients, regulate lifespan.

Zinc affects the proliferation-quiescence cell fate decision of mammalian cells, demonstrating that micronutrients can regulate the cell cycle.

The optimal macronutrient composition, macronutrient space, varies strongly between closely related species and is determined by genetic changes in regulatory genes that globally reprogram gene expression profiles of metabolic pathways.

The SCHENGEN3 protein is needed for the progression of isolated microdomains into a continuous band, which is necessary for the establishment of the major extracellular diffusion barrier in plant roots: the Casparian strip.

Dietary choice per se is sufficient to modulate aging in Drosophila and through serotonergic control of peripheral metabolism.

Serotonin modulates diet-dependent lifespan in flies.

Integral membrane subunits of energy-coupling factor transporters associate with and dissociate from each other as part of the transport mechanism.

Migratory birds with fuel stores composed of more omega-6 fats saved energy during long-duration flights, but this short-term energy saving came at the long-term cost of higher oxidative damage.

A high-phytate-low Ca²⁺ diet causes crystal nephropathies, renal phosphate wasting, and bone disease in rats, whereas high Ca²⁺ intake ameliorates the detrimental effects of a high-phytate diet.