Laura Blackie

Abstract INTRODUCTION RESULTS DISCUSSION MATERIALS AND METHODS Acknowledgments Supplementary Materials REFERENCES Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share Abstract At the onset of life, feeding must be initiated while developmental waste products—the meconium—need to be eliminated. Although these two fundamental physiological processes are interconnected, their mechanistic coupling remains poorly understood.

Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2866-8 Published online 28 October 2020 We have been made aware of labelling issues in our article which were inadvertently introduced while reformatting the manuscript during revision. Two genotype labels in Fig. 1c (GAL4 and UAS controls) were accidentally swapped, the genotype of Extended Data Fig. 2e–e′′ was omitted from the List of Genotypes in Supplementary Information and one label in Extended Data Fig.

Abstract The interplay between feeding and excretion is essential for organismal nutrition and survival, yet their mechanistic coupling remains poorly understood. At the onset of life, feeding must be initiated while developmental waste products — the meconium — need to be eliminated. Using Drosophila as a model system, we explored the in vivo mechanisms coordinating these processes.