Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made ...

Fly vs. wasp: Stealing a defense move helps thwart a predator To avoid unwillingly birthing a baby wasp, flies filched a trick from bacteria Date: December 25, 2024 Source: University of ...

Two early-stage wasp larvae removed from a fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that had been parasitized by the wasp Leptopilina boulardi. The fly expressed the fusionB gene that UC Berkeley ...

Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made ...

University of California, Berkeley biologists have shown that several species of fruit fly have stolen a successful defense from bacteria to survive predation by parasitic wasps, which in some ...