Self-harm caused by an insect's innate immunity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1600, 2006, Pages 2571-2574

  Sadd, Ben M ^a,b   Siva Jothy, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autoreactivity; Innate immunity; Malpighian tubules; Phenoloxidase; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; INNATE BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETION; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

EID: 33748978015     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3574     Document Type: Article

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