Insects are one of the most species-rich groups of metazoan organisms. They play a pivotal role in most non-marine ecosystems and many insect species are of enormous economical and medical importance.
In this study, we profiled the D. melanogaster transcriptomic response to 10 bacteria that span the spectrum of virulence (Escherichia coli, Micrococcus luteus, Type strain of Serratia marcescens, Pec
