Expansion of the antimicrobial peptide repertoire in the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1750, 2013, Pages

  Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a   Mukherjee, Krishnendu ^a   Vogel, Heiko ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Gene family expansion; Harmonia axyridis; Innate immunity; Invasion biology

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; GENE FLOW; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; PATHOGEN; PEPTIDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME;

EID: 84869809428     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2113     Document Type: Article

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