Nagaraj Guru Prasad

This study examines how the socio-sexual environment of Drosophila melanogaster females affects their fecundity and response to bacterial infection, finding no effect on infection response but changes in baseline reproductive effort.

The paper investigates the genetic and transcriptional basis of post-infection survival in Drosophila selected for increased survival, finding additive genetics but sex-specific transcriptional regulation and functional bottlenecks.

This study shows that higher bacterial infection doses in Drosophila melanogaster reduce fecundity more, but only in dying hosts, suggesting organ damage, not resource trade-offs, causes fecundity suppression.

This study shows that the timing of starvation affects Drosophila melanogaster's susceptibility to E. faecalis infection, with post-infection starvation improving survival regardless of prior treatment.

This study shows that experimental evolution of Drosophila melanogaster under post-infection survival selection leads to increased disease resistance but not disease tolerance.

This study shows that parental infection in Drosophila melanogaster improves offspring survival and disease resistance to both homologous and heterologous pathogens without measurable costs.