Check out the final version of our paper! With the brilliant @abenaakyaw.bsky.social , we showed that resistance and disease tolerance mechanisms evolved in tandem to enable a fast and strong response to oral bacterial infection in #Dmelanogaster. #hostparasite #experimentalevolution

The internet seems to think this is some sexual thing, but any biologist can tell you what this is.

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