'Trans-generational immune priming': Specific enhancement of the antimicrobial immune response in the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1592, 2006, Pages 1399-1405

  Moret, Yannick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Ecological immunology; Phenoloxidase; Trans generational immunity

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADAPTATION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BEETLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTIVITY; MIMICRY; PEPTIDE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INHERITANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TENEBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LARVA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TENEBRIO;

EID: 33746192326     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3465     Document Type: Article

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