Gut Microbiota Accelerate the Insecticidal Activity of Plastid-Expressed Bacillus thuringiensis Cry3Bb to a Leaf Beetle, Plagiodera versicolora

X Lei, F Zhang, J Zhang - Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacillus thuringiensis is widely used as a biopesticide, and its crystal protein expressed in
transgenic crops has been successfully used for the management of insect pests. However …

[HTML][HTML] Infection risk by oral contamination does not induce immune priming in the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor) but triggers behavioral and physiological …

A Goerlinger, C Develay, A Balourdet… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In invertebrates, immune priming is the ability of individuals to enhance their immune
response based on prior immunological experiences. This adaptive-like immunity likely …

Alteration of diet microbiota limits the experimentally evolved immune priming response in flour beetles, but not pathogen resistance

A Prakash, D Agashe, I Khan - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Host‐associated microbiota play a fundamental role in the training and induction of different
forms of immunity, including inducible as well as constitutive components. However, direct …

Differential proteome profiling of bacterial culture supernatants reveals candidates for the induction of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle

ZM Länger, M Baur, A Korša, J Eirich… - Biology …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Most organisms are host to symbionts and pathogens, which led to the evolution of immune
strategies to prevent harm. Whilst the immune defences of vertebrates are classically divided …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial microbiome associated with cigarette beetle Lasioderma serricorne (F.) and its microbial plasticity in relation to diet sources

TS Srinivasan, K Premachandran, PX Clinton - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Insect-microbial symbiosis contributes positively to the physiology of the insect and diet is
considered as one important factor determining microbial symbiosis. In this study, we have …