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SUBMITTER: Kacsoh BZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3760715 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kacsoh Balint Z BZ Lynch Zachary R ZR Mortimer Nathan T NT Schlenke Todd A TA
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20130201 6122
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 behavior, mediated by neuropeptide F, is retained long after wasps are removed. Flies respon ...[more]