Maintenance and deployment of the immune system are costly and are hence predicted to trade-off with other resource demanding traits, such as reproduction. We subjected this long standing idea to te
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 f
Metabolic adaptation to changing demands underlies homeostasis. During inflammation or metastasis, cells leading migration into challenging environments require an energy boost, however what controls