# Beyond the Anterior: Amylase Gene Expression Suggests Widespread Polysaccharide Digestion in the Drosophila Midgut Bio11A Spring2025

**URL:** <https://help.c-moor.org/t/beyond-the-anterior-amylase-gene-expression-suggests-widespread-polysaccharide-digestion-in-the-drosophila-midgut-bio11a-spring2025/524>\
**Category:** Look at This!\
**Tags:** RNA-seq, Spring2025, CCC, miniCURE\
**Created:** [May 17, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://help.c-moor.org/t/beyond-the-anterior-amylase-gene-expression-suggests-widespread-polysaccharide-digestion-in-the-drosophila-midgut-bio11a-spring2025/524 "2025-05-17T02:46:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![sreeyapedireddi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@sreeyapedireddi](https://help.c-moor.org/u/sreeyapedireddi)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://help.c-moor.org/t/beyond-the-anterior-amylase-gene-expression-suggests-widespread-polysaccharide-digestion-in-the-drosophila-midgut-bio11a-spring2025/524/1 "2025-05-17T02:46:09Z")

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**What I Did**  
We analyzed genes related to starch and sucrose metabolism and found that not only the anterior region, but the posterior region as well of the Drosophila melanogaster midgut contained genes that broke down polysaccharides.

**How You Can Help**  
We did not have conclusive results on whether or not these genes did actually break down sugars throughout all the regions of the midgut and the reasons why this occurred need to be more researched.