image: D. melanogaster. When infected, offspring of ebony rough (left) and wild-type (right) fruit flies produce more genetically diverse progeny. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 14, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by N.D. Singh at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, and colleagues was titled, 'Fruit flies diversify their offspring in response to parasite infection.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Dahlia Nielsen: NC State University]