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Sharmila Bharathi, N., Archana, N., Badrinarayanan, A. et al. Time to death in the presence of E. coli: a mass-scale method for assaying pathogen resistance in Drosophila . J Genet 86, 75–79 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-007-0011-1
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