Nutritional stress affects the tsetse fly's immune gene expression

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-201

  Akoda, K ^a   Van Den Bossche, P ^a,b   Marcotty, T ^a   Kubi, C ^a   Coosemans, M ^a   De Deken, R ^a   Van Den Abbeele, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Glossina morsitans; Infection; Starvation; Trypanosoma brucei brucei; Trypanosoma congolense

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ATTACIN ANTIBACTERIAL PROTEIN, INSECT; CECROPIN; DEFENSIN; INSECT PROTEIN; LIPID; PRIMER DNA; TUBULIN;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; HATCHING; HEALTH IMPACT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; STARVATION; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MAMMAL; NUTRITION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STARVATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CECROPINS; DEFENSINS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INSECT PROTEINS; LIPIDS; MALE; MAMMALS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STARVATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLIES; TUBULIN;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA MORSITANS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

EID: 68949125076     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2009.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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