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Fruit Flies Medicate Their Offspring with Alcohol (2 of 3)

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Fruit Flies Medicate Their Offspring with Alcohol (2 of 3)

image: Endoparasitoid wasps (Leptopilina boulardi) that have successfully infected fruit fly larvae getting ready to eclose from fruit fly pupal cases. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 22, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Balint Z. Kacsoh at Emory University in Atlanda, GA, and colleagues was titled, “Fruit Flies Medicate Offspring After Seeing Parasites.” view more 

Credit: [Image courtesy of Todd Schlenke]


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