Antimicrobial peptides play a functional role in bumblebee anti-trypanosome defense

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 240-243

  Deshwal, Soni ^a   Mallon, Eamonn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Crithidia bombi; Gut microbiota; RNAi

Indexed keywords

ABAECIN; ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; DEFENSIN; IMMUNOLOGIC AGENT; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA;

CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI;

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; GUT MICROBIOTA; RNAI;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BEES; CRITHIDIA; DEFENSINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84886248272     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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