Figure 6.

Survival of adults after bacterial infection. The survival rates (%) after injection of different types of bacteria for Thor flies (Thor¹ and Thor²) compared with imd flies and a wild-type revertant, Thor^1rv1 (wt). (A) Flies without an injection (−) and with a sterile wound (w) are presented for each stock as controls to compare the effect of infection. Bacteria used are E. cloacae B₁₂ (B) and E. coli (Ec). Additional types of bacteria used are presented separately in (B), S. epidermidis (Se), and (C), M. roseus (Mr). Flies were kept at 29°C, and data points are means and corresponding standard error for at least five replicates of samples of 20 flies.