Trans-generational Immune Priming Protects the Eggs Only against Gram-Positive Bacteria in the Mealworm Beetle

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Dubuffet, Aurore ^a,b   Zanchi, Caroline ^a,c   Boutet, Gwendoline ^a   Moreau, Jérôme ^a   Teixeira, Maria ^a   Moret, Yannick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INHIBITION ZONE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TENEBRIO; TRANSGENERATIONAL IMMUNE PRIMING; ANIMAL; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EGGS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TENEBRIO;

EID: 84946013521     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005178     Document Type: Article

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