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Drosophila melanogaster is subject to infection by the sigma virus, either by virus carried in the fly gametes or by extracts from infected flies. Infected flies somehow become ‘CO2-sensitive’ and thereafter are fatally poisoned if subjected to a dose of CO2, which is merely anaesthetic to virus-free flies. Plus1 showed that the time lag (incubation period) between a sigma injection and the onset of CO2-sensitivity is a measure of the injected dose, and sigma extracts are now usually titred by using them as inocula and measuring the resultant incubation period in recipient adult flies.
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SEECOF, R. Resistance to Sigma Virus Infection in Drosophila. Nature 207, 887–888 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207887b0
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