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Fruit flies diversify their offspring in response to parasite infection

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By Nadia Singh, Dallas R. Criscoe, Shelly Skolfield, Kathryn P. Kohl, Erin S. Keebaugh
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Parasitism, including infections, can negatively affect fitness. Parents can help the next generation by increasing genetic diversity so that offspring can avoid or fight off these deleterious interactions more easily. For fruit flies, Singh et al. observed that in response to bacterial infection or predation by a parasitic wasp, the next generation showed increased recombination.
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