A temperature shock can lead to trans-generational immune priming in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1318-1326

  Eggert, Hendrik ^a   Diddens de Buhr, Maike F ^a   Kurtz, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Tribolium castaneum; Bacillus thuringiensis; Heat shock; Insect immunity; Stress; Trans generational effects

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 84924989483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1443     Document Type: Article

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