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Caption: Downing Lake, shown here, was one of seven Indiana lakes researchers monitored during a four-month period to assess how the Daphnia dentifera population quickly evolved to survive epidemics of a virulent yeast parasite Metschnikowia bicuspidata.
Credit: Indiana University/David Civitello
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