Immune Gene Expression in Bombus terrestris: Signatures of Infection Despite Strong Variation among Populations, Colonies, and Sister Workers

Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

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Probing Mixed-Genotype Infections I: Extraction and Cloning of Infections from Hosts of the Trypanosomatid Crithidia bombi

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

(2011) Heiko Vogel et al.   BMC GENOMICS

FOOD-ENVIRONMENT MEDIATES THE OUTCOME OF SPECIFIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A BUMBLEBEE AND ITS TRYPANOSOME PARASITE

(2011) Ben M. Sadd   EVOLUTION

Pathways to immunity: temporal dynamics of the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) immune response against a trypanosomal gut parasite

(2011) C. E. Riddell et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Peroxiredoxin 5 modulates immune response in Drosophila

(2010) Svetlana N. Radyuk et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS

Infection with the trypanosome Crithidia bombi and expression of immune-related genes in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

(2010) Helge Schlüns et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Parasite-mediated evolution of the functional part of the MHC in primates

(2010) L. Z. GARAMSZEGI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The vitellogenin of the bumblebee, Bombus hypocrita: studies on structural analysis of the cDNA and expression of the mRNA

(2009) Jilian Li et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Immune responses of bumblebee workers as a function of individual and colony age: senescence versus plastic adjustment of the immune function

(2009) Yannick Moret et al.   OIKOS

Differential Expression of Immune Defences Is Associated with Specific Host-Parasite Interactions in Insects

(2009) Carolyn Riddell et al.   PLoS One

QuantPrime - a flexible tool for reliable high-throughput primer design for quantitative PCR

(2008) Samuel Arvidsson et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Molecular characterization of iron binding proteins, transferrin and ferritin heavy chain subunit, from the bumblebee Bombus ignitus

(2008) Dong Wang et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method

(2008) Thomas D Schmittgen et al.   Nature Protocols

Immunity in a variable world

(2008) B. P Lazzaro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES