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Fruit flies medicate offspring after seeing parasites.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 22 Feb 2013

Kacsoh Balint Z, Lynch Zachary R, Mortimer Nathan T, Schlenke Todd A

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Hosts have numerous defenses against parasites, of which behavioral immune responses are an important but underappreciated component. Here we describe a behavioral immune response that Drosophila melanogaster uses against endoparasitoid wasps. We found that when flies see wasps, they switch to laying eggs in alcohol-laden food sources that protect hatched larvae from infection. This change in oviposition...

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PMID: 23430653
DOI: 10.1126/science.1229625
PMCID: PMC3760715

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