Immune competence in insect eggs depends on the extraembryonic serosa

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 263-269

  Jacobs, Chris G C ^a   Van Der Zee, Maurijn ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs); Drosophila melanogaster; Innate immunity; Tc zen1; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEPSIS; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84880410765     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2013.05.017     Document Type: Article

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