Drosophila melanogaster does not exhibit a behavioural fever response when infected with Drosophila C virus Arnold, Pieter A. and White, Craig R. and Johnson, Karyn N.,, 96, 3667-3671 (2015), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.000296, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 0022-1317, abstract= Behavioural fever is a widely conserved response to infection. The host increases body temperature (T b) by altering their preferred temperature (T p), generating a fever and delaying or avoiding pathogen-induced mortality. This response is not ubiquitous in insects, however, although few studies have investigated this response to viral infection. Here, we examined the change in T p of Drosophila in response to virus infection using a thermal gradient. No difference in T p was observed. We suggest that the lack of behavioural fever could be due to the increased energy cost of maintaining a higher T b whilst the immune response is active. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to assay for changes in T p of infected Drosophila., language=, type=