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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Insect immunity"”.
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The expression and regulation on antimicrobial peptide genes in insects: studies in the tobacco hornworm manduca sexta
Insects have evolved an efficient innate immune system to combat microbes. Most of our knowledge of insect immunity comes from studies with dipteran and lepidopteran insects, such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta and the silkworm Bombyx mori. One of the …
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A Combined Computational Strategy of Sequence and Structural Analysis Predicts the Existence of a Functional Eicosanoid Pathway in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
… melanogaster</em>, a powerful model for innate immunity and inflammation, codes for the enzymes required for eicosanoid biosynthesis. We report the existence of putative eicosanoid biosynthesis enzymes in <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> which may function together as a pathway similar to the …
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Inbreeding, immunity and male sexual signaling in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus
… courtship calls. first focused on the role of immunity in sexual selection. The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) proposes that sexual signals reliably indicate male immunocompetence because of a trade off between sexual trait expression and immunity. I first tested for the predicted …
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Inbreeding, immunity and male sexual signaling in the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus
… courtship calls. first focused on the role of immunity in sexual selection. The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) proposes that sexual signals reliably indicate male immunocompetence because of a trade off between sexual trait expression and immunity. I first tested for the predicted …
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Wolbachia colonization in drosophila midguts and its effects on intestinal stem cells
… indicating that Wolbachia-induced changes in the insect immunity could block the virus, however there is no consensus in the literature. A necessary step in the transmission of these diseases is the viral entry into the insect vector. This occurs trough the gut epithelium, highlighting the …
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A comparative genomics approach towards classifying immunity-related proteins in the tsetse fly
… in livestock. Research suggests that tsetse fly immunity factors are key determinants in the success and failure of infection and the maturation process of parasites. An analysis of tsetse fly immunity factors is limited by the paucity of genomic data for Glossina spp. Nevertheless, completely …