Contact: Abby Robinson Georgia Institute of Technology Research
News Caption: Downing Lake, shown here, was one of seven Indiana
lakes researchers monitored during a four-month period to assess
how the Daphnia dentifera population quickly evolved to survive
epidemics of a virulent yeast parasite Metschnikowia
bicuspidata. Credit: Indiana University/David Civitello Usage
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