A. K. Basu

Parental effects of pathogenic bacterial infections in Drosophila melanogaster: trans-generational immune priming without apparent costs

This study shows that parental infection in Drosophila melanogaster improves offspring survival and disease resistance to both homologous and heterologous pathogens without measurable costs.

Effect of larval diet on adult immune function is contingent upon selection history and host sex in Drosophila melanogaster

This study shows that Drosophila melanogaster adapted to bacterial infections maintain better immune function under poor diets, with sex-dependent effects.

Increasing adult density compromises anti-bacterial defense in Drosophila melanogaster

This study shows that higher adult Drosophila melanogaster densities lead to increased post-infection mortality and starvation resistance, supporting the density-stress hypothesis.