Galleria mellonella as a Suitable Model of Bacterial Infection: Past, Present and Future

G Ménard, A Rouillon, V Cattoir… - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The increasing interest for Galleria mellonella larvae as an infection model is evidenced by
the number of papers reporting its use, which increases exponentially since the early 2010s …

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 …

Immunity of the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella

I Wojda - Insect science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Investigation of insect immune mechanisms provides important information concerning
innate immunity, which in many aspects is conserved in animals. This is one of the reasons …

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 …

Yeast‐insect associations: It takes guts

I Stefanini - Yeast, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Insects interact with microorganisms in several situations, ranging from the accidental
interaction to locate attractive food or the acquisition of essential nutrients missing in the …

Recent Advances in the Use of Galleria mellonella Model to Study Immune Responses against Human Pathogens

TC Pereira, PP De Barros, LRO Fugisaki, RD Rossoni… - Journal of Fungi, 2018 - mdpi.com
The use of invertebrates for in vivo studies in microbiology is well established in the scientific
community. Larvae of Galleria mellonella are a widely used model for studying …

[PDF][PDF] Bees just wanna have fungi: a review of bee associations with nonpathogenic fungi

D Rutkowski, M Weston… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bee–fungus associations are common, and while most studies focus on entomopathogens,
emerging evidence suggests that bees associate with a variety of symbiotic fungi that can …

A comprehensive transcriptome and immune-gene repertoire of the lepidopteran model host Galleria mellonella

H Vogel, B Altincicek, G Glöckner, A Vilcinskas - BMC genomics, 2011 - Springer
Background The larvae of the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella are increasingly used (i)
as mini-hosts to study pathogenesis and virulence factors of prominent bacterial and fungal …

Immune Response of Galleria mellonella against Human Fungal Pathogens

N Trevijano-Contador, O Zaragoza - Journal of Fungi, 2018 - mdpi.com
In many aspects, the immune response against pathogens in insects is similar to the innate
immunity in mammals. This has caused a strong interest in the scientific community for the …

Galleria mellonella as a Model System for Studying Listeria Pathogenesis

K Mukherjee, B Altincicek, T Hain… - Applied and …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Essential aspects of the innate immune response to microbial infection are conserved
between insects and mammals. This has generated interest in using insects as model …