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Type  MGI:General Description  unlike pregnant wild-type females which show a progressive increase in food intake that correlates positively with body mass, middle-aged mutant females do not significantly increase their food intake during pregnancy whereas middle-aged wild-type females increase their food intake by 67.6% up to the 16th day of lactation, age-matched mutant females increase their food consumption by 40%; moreover, this increase fails to occur continuously as in wild-type females