Tsetse immune system maturation requires the presence of obligate symbionts in larvae

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Weiss, Brian L ^a   Wang, Jingwen ^a   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTACIN; CECROPIN; CELL PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LOZENGE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; SERPENT PROTEIN; THIOESTER CONTAINING PROTEIN 2; THIOESTER CONTAINING PROTEIN 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOOD CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MILK EJECTION; NONHUMAN; OBLIGATE SYMBIOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLY; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA MORSITANS; WIGGLESWORTHIA; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA;

ANIMALS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LARVA; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLIES; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

EID: 79958043462     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000619     Document Type: Article

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