Drosophila serrata MA immune function

This project first determined that D. serrata is a susceptible host of the Drosophila C virus. Second, survival time following DCV infection was measured for a panel of 65 inbred lines that differed from one another by fixation of spontaneous mutations over 30 generations, and that data used to determine how mutations affected DCV susceptibility. Finally, for a subset of lines with extreme differences in survival time, we also measured female offspring production to determine whether mutations affecting immune function also affected productivity.