Innate humoral immune defences in mammals and insects: The same, with differences?

G Sheehan, A Garvey, M Croke, K Kavanagh - Virulence, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The insect immune response demonstrates many similarities to the innate immune response
of mammals and a wide range of insects is now employed to assess the virulence of …

Cell-mediated immunity in arthropods: hematopoiesis, coagulation, melanization and opsonization

P Jiravanichpaisal, BL Lee, K Söderhäll - Immunobiology, 2006 - Elsevier
Cell-mediated immunity in arthropods: Hematopoiesis, coagulation, melanization and
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[PDF][PDF] A single-cell transcriptome atlas of the aging Drosophila brain

K Davie, J Janssens, D Koldere, M De Waegeneer… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The diversity of cell types and regulatory states in the brain, and how these change during
aging, remains largely unknown. We present a single-cell transcriptome atlas of the entire …

A worldwide survey of genome sequence variation provides insight into the evolutionary history of the honeybee Apis mellifera

A Wallberg, F Han, G Wellhagen, B Dahle, M Kawata… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The honeybee Apis mellifera has major ecological and economic importance. We analyze
patterns of genetic variation at 8.3 million SNPs, identified by sequencing 140 honeybee …

Temporal specificity and heterogeneity of Drosophila immune cells

PB Cattenoz, R Sakr, A Pavlidaki, C Delaporte… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Immune cells provide defense against non‐self and have recently been shown to also play
key roles in diverse processes such as development, metabolism, and tumor progression …

Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell

P Van Der Harst, W Zhang, I Mateo Leach, A Rendon… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Anaemia is a chief determinant of global ill health, contributing to cognitive impairment,
growth retardation and impaired physical capacity. To understand further the genetic factors …

Immune priming: the secret weapon of the insect world

G Sheehan, G Farrell, K Kavanagh - Virulence, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Insects are a highly successful group of animals that inhabit almost every habitat and
environment on Earth. Part of their success is due to a rapid and highly effective immune …

Extensive diversity of Ig-superfamily proteins in the immune system of insects

FL Watson, R Püttmann-Holgado, F Thomas… - Science, 2005 - science.org
The extensive somatic diversification of immune receptors is a hallmark of higher
vertebrates. However, whether molecular diversity contributes to immune protection in …

[PDF][PDF] Signaling role of hemocytes in Drosophila JAK/STAT-dependent response to septic injury

H Agaisse, UM Petersen, M Boutros, B Mathey-Prevot… - Developmental cell, 2003 - cell.com
To characterize the features of JAK/STAT signaling in Drosophila immune response, we
have identified totA as a gene that is regulated by the JAK/STAT pathway in response to …

The Drosophila lymph gland as a developmental model of hematopoiesis

SH Jung, CJ Evans, C Uemura, U Banerjee - 2005 - journals.biologists.com
Drosophila hematopoiesis occurs in a specialized organ called the lymph gland. In this
systematic analysis of lymph gland structure and gene expression, we define the …