Qualitatively different immune response of the bumblebee host, Bombus terrestris, to infection by different genotypes of the trypanosome gut parasite, Crithidia bombi

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue , 2013, Pages 249-256

  Barribeau, Seth M ^a   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecology; Gene expression; Host parasite interaction; Immunology; Pollinator

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; FERRITIN; LYSOZYME; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN; PEROXIREDOXIN 5; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN L13; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITHIDIA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UPREGULATION;

APOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; HEXAPODA;

ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; POLLINATOR;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; CRITHIDIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84885057041     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.09.014     Document Type: Article

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