Probing the tri-trophic interaction between insects, nematodes and Photorhabdus

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1695-1706

  Eleftherianos, I ^a,b   Joyce, S ^c   Ffrench Constant, R H ^d   Clarke, D J ^c   Reynolds, S E ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cellular response; Heterorhabditis; humoral response; insect immunity; Manduca; Photorhabdus

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HETERORHABDITIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT; MANDUCA SEXTA; MORTALITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PHOTORHABDUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMOCYTES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MANDUCA; PHOTORHABDUS; RHABDITOIDEA; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

HETERORHABDITIS; HETERORHABDITIS SP.; HETERORHABDUS; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS SP.;

EID: 77957323096     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182010000508     Document Type: Article

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