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The Mechanisms of Social Immunity Against Fungal Infections in Eusocial Insects
Toxins, 2019 Entomopathogenic fungus as well as their toxins is a natural threat surrounding social insect colonies. To defend against them, social insects have evolved a series of unique disease defenses at the colony level, which consists of behavioral and ...
Long Liu +4 more
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Nature Communications, 2017 Immunity deteriorates with age in animals but less is known about how aging affects immunity in plants. Here, Maoet al. show that responsiveness to the major insect defense hormone JA declines as plants age, but insect resistance still increases as ...
Ying-Bo Mao +8 more
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Nitric Oxide-Induced Calcineurin A Mediates Antimicrobial Peptide Production Through the IMD Pathway
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Nitric oxide (NO) at a high concentration is an effector to kill pathogens during insect immune responses, it also functions as a second messenger at a low concentration to regulate antimicrobial peptide (AMP) production in insects.
Kangkang Chen +7 more
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Eicosanoid Actions in Insect Immunity [PDF]
Journal of Innate Immunity, 2009 Insects express 3 lines of protection from infections and invasions. Their cuticles and peritrophic membranes are physical barriers. Infections and invasions are quickly recognized within insect bodies, and recognition launches 2 lines of innate immune reactions.
David, Stanley +2 more
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Endocrine regulation of immunity in insects [PDF]
The FEBS Journal, 2020 Organisms have constant contact with potentially harmful agents that can compromise their fitness. However, most of the times these agents fail to cause serious disease by virtue of the rapid and efficient immune responses elicited in the host that can range from behavioural adaptations to immune system triggering. The immune system of insects does not
Nunes, Catarina +2 more
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Selection on insect immunity in the wild [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2004 The strength of selection on immune function in wild populations has only been examined in a few vertebrate species. We report the results from a study measuring selection on a key insect immune enzyme, phenoloxidase (PO), in a wild population of the damselfly Calopteryx xanthostoma. We followed individually marked males from the pre-reproductive adult
Jens, Rolff, Michael T, Siva-Jothy
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BMC Genomics, 2019 Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported that the original shading in columns 3 and 4 of Table 3, which indicated the presence or absence of viruses in each library, had been removed during typesetting.
Eugeni Belda +10 more
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Insect prophenoloxidase: the view beyond immunity
Frontiers in Physiology, 2014 Insect prophenoloxidase (PPO) is an important innate immunity protein due to its involvement in cellular and humoral defense. It belongs to a group of type-3 copper-containing proteins that occurs in almost all organisms.
Anrui eLu +7 more
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BMC Genomics, 2019 Background Mosquitoes are colonized by a large but mostly uncharacterized natural virome of RNA viruses, and the composition and distribution of the natural RNA virome may influence the biology and immunity of Anopheles malaria vector populations ...
Eugeni Belda +10 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 The commensal gut microbiome is contained by the enteric epithelial barrier, but little is known about the degree of specificity of host immune barrier interactions for particular bacterial taxa. Here, we show that depletion of leucine-rich repeat immune
Christian Mitri +21 more
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