Immune response of the ant Camponotus floridanus against pathogens and its obligate mutualistic endosymbiont

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 529-536

  Ratzka, Carolin ^a   Liang, Chunguang ^a   Dandekar, Thomas ^a   Gross, Roy ^a   Feldhaar, Heike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blochmannia floridanus; Camponotus floridanus; Carpenter ants; Endosymbiosis; Gene expression regulation; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79959523734     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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