More than a colour change: insect melanism, disease resistance and fecundity

A ‘dark morph’ melanic strain of the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella, was studied for its atypical, heightened resistance to infection with the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana. We show that these insects exhibit multiple intraspecific immunity and physiological traits that distingu...

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Autores principales: Dubovskiy, I. M., Whitten, M. M. A., Kryukov, V. Y., Yaroslavtseva, O. N., Grizanova, E. V., Greig, C., Mukherjee, K., Vilcinskas, A., Mitkovets, P. V., Glupov, V. V., Butt, T. M.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3774225/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23698007
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0584
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