The effect of bacterially-dense environments on the development and immune defences of the blowfly Lucilia sericata

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-100

  Barnes, Katherine M ^a   Gennard, Dorothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Constitutive response; Insect immune defence; Lucilia sericata

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; EMERGENCE; EXCRETION; FITNESS; FLY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVA; SECRETION; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALLIPHORIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; LUCILIA SERICATA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79951537699     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2010.00759.x     Document Type: Article

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