Contrasting Infection Strategies in Generalist and Specialist Wasp Parasitoids of Drosophila melanogaster
Figure 5
Different Phenotypic Effects of Lb17 and Lh14 Venom
(A) Percentage of Drosophila lamellocytes lysed (bipolar) after incubation with wasp venom in vitro (means and standard errors shown). (B) hopTum-l larvae form melanotic tumors (black arrows), even when infected with either Lb17 (C, E, F) or Lh14 (D, G, H). Though dominant larvae of neither wasp species are encapsulated (white arrows), melanization of supernumerary wasp larvae (white arrowheads) occurs only in Lb17 attacked Drosophila.