Hindgut Innate Immunity and Regulation of Fecal Microbiota through Melanization in Insects

Many insects eat the green leaves of plants but excrete black feces in an as yet unknown mechanism. Insects cannot avoid ingesting pathogens with food that will be specifically detected by the midgut immune system. However, just as in mammals, many pathogens can still escape the insect midgut immune...

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Main Authors: Shao, Qimiao, Yang, Bing, Xu, Qiuyun, Li, Xuquan, Lu, Zhiqiang, Wang, Chengshu, Huang, Yongping, Söderhäll, Kenneth, Ling, Erjun
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2012
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Immunology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3340165/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22375003
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M112.354548
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