Fig 5. Yeast supplementation affects sexual dimorphism in survival of D. melanogaster inoculated with B. bassiana strain GHA (Experiment 4).

Three days prior to control spray (dashed lines) or fungal spray (solid lines), flies were given cornmeal (C), cornmeal with yeast supplement (CY), or glucose (G) diets (marked before the dash in the figure headings). After the spray, which was on day 15 from egg, flies were kept on one of the three types of diets (C, CY, or G, marked after the dash in the figure headings). Yeast supplementation improved survival of inoculated males (blue) and females (orange). When yeast supplementation was provided after the inoculation, sexual dimorphism was ablated. But there was sexual dimorphism among control flies when yeast supplementation was provided both before and after the spray. See S6 Table for analysis of these results. The figure shows model estimates for the raw data shown in S12 Table.