Abstract Repeats-in-toxin (RTX) exoproteins of Gram-negative bacteria form a steadily
growing family of proteins with diverse biological functions. Their common feature is the …

Recent genetic and molecular analyses have revealed how several strategies enable
bacteria to persist and overcome insect immune defences. Genetic and genomic tools that …

Pathogens have developed multiple strategies that allow them to exploit host resources and
resist the immune response. To study how Drosophila flies deal with infectious diseases in a …

Insects are the largest group of animals on earth. Like mammals, virus, fungi, bacteria and
parasites infect them. Several tissue barriers and defense mechanisms are common for …

Microbial populations stochastically generate variants with strikingly different properties,
such as virulence or avirulence and antibiotic tolerance or sensitivity. Photorhabdus …

More than a quarter of the world's population is infected with nematode parasites, and more
than a hundred species of nematodes are parasites of humans [1–3]. Despite extensive …

Injection of a culture supernatant of Serratia marcescens into the bloodstream of the
silkworm Bombyx mori increased the number of freely circulating immunosurveillance cells …

Plant-parasitic nematodes are responsible for substantial damages within the agriculture
industry every year, which is a challenge that has thus far gone largely unimpeded …

Xenorhabdus nematophila is an emerging model for both mutualism and pathogenicity in
different invertebrate hosts. Here we conduct a mutant study of the EnvZ‐OmpR two …

Photorhabdus sp. strain Az29 is symbiotic with an Azorean nematode of the genus
Heterorhabditis in a complex that is highly virulent to insects even at low temperatures. The …