Effective but costly, evolved mechanisms of defense against a virulent opportunistic pathogen in drosophila melanogaster

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ye, Yixin H ^a   Chenoweth, Stephen F ^a   McGraw, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INSECT GENETICS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PLEIOTROPY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 66349105934     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000385.s001     Document Type: Article

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