The Mosquito Melanization Response Is Implicated in Defense against the Entomopathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Yassine, Hassan ^a   Kamareddine, Layla ^a   Osta, Mike A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; FEMALE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; REARING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SURVIVAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BEAUVERIA; GENE SILENCING; HEMOCYTES; HYPHAE; INSECT PROTEINS; MELANINS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI;

EID: 84870827106     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003029     Document Type: Article

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