Host refractoriness of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, to the braconid endoparasitoid Cotesia flavipes

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 159-171

  Rodríguez Pérez, Mario A ^a   Dumpit, Ronald F ^b   Lenz, Jennifer M ^b   Powell, Erinn N ^b   Tam, Selina Y ^b   Beckage, Nancy E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Braconid wasp; Cotesia flavipes; Diatraea saccharalis; Encapsulation; Hemocyte; Insect immunity; Manduca sexta; Parasitism; Parasitoid; Polydnavirus; Refractoriness; Sugarcane borer; Tobacco hornworm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BLOOD CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WASP;

ANIMALS; HEMOCYTES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LARVA; MANDUCA; OVUM; TIME FACTORS; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; BRACONIDAE; COTESIA FLAVIPES; DIATRAEA SACCHARALIS; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MANDUCA SEXTA; PYRALIDAE; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 33645296287     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: 15206327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arch.20102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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