Although many insects successfully live in dangerous environments exposed to diverse
communities of microbes, they are often exploited and killed by specialist pathogens …

Recent studies addressing experimental host–parasite coevolution and transgenerational
immune priming in insects provide evidence for heritable shifts in host resistance or parasite …

Encapsulation and nodulation in insects Page 1 ISJ 13: 229-246, 2016 ISSN 1824-307X
REVIEW Encapsulation and nodulation in insects Dubovskiy IM1, Kryukova NA1, Glupov VV1 …

Microevolutionary mechanisms of resistance to a bacterial pathogen were explored in a
population of the Greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella, selected for an 8.8-fold increased …

Overwintering insects must survive the multiple-stress environment of winter, which includes
low temperatures, reduced food and water availability, and cold-active pathogens. Many …

Parasitic fungi and their insect hosts provide an intriguing model system for dissecting the
complex co-evolutionary processes, which result in Red Queen dynamics. To explore the …

The infection process of many diseases can be divided into series of steps, each one
required to successfully complete the parasite's life and transmission cycle. This approach …

Dwindling resources might be expected to induce a gradual decline in immune function.
However, food limitation has complex and seemingly paradoxical effects on the immune …

The phenological synchrony between the emergence of overwintering herbivorous insects
and the budding of host plants is considered a crucial factor in the population dynamics of …

Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the initial enzyme in the melanin pathway, catalyzes tyrosine
conversion into Dopa. Although expression and regulation of TH have been shown to affect …