Microbiota plays a role in oral immune priming in Tribolium castaneum

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Futo, Momir ^a   Armitage, Sophie A O ^a   Kurtz, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Immune priming; Innate immunity; Microbiota; Oral infection; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; LARVA; MICROFLORA; PATHOGEN LOAD; SPECIES; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 84957989645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01383     Document Type: Article

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