Transfer of Immunity from Mother to Offspring Is Mediated via Egg-Yolk Protein Vitellogenin

Not Only for Egg Yolk—Functional and Evolutionary Insights from Expression, Selection, and Structural Analyses of Formica Ant Vitellogenins

(2014) Claire Morandin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Different effects of paternal trans-generational immune priming on survival and immunity in step and genetic offspring

(2014) H. Eggert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The maternal transfer of bacteria can mediate trans-generational immune priming in insects

(2014) Dalial Freitak et al.   Virulence

Identification of Receptor-Interacting Regions of Vitellogenin within Evolutionarily Conserved β-Sheet Structures by Using a Peptide Array

(2013) Ziv Roth et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Vitellogenin Recognizes Cell Damage through Membrane Binding and Shields Living Cells from Reactive Oxygen Species

(2013) Heli Havukainen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Seasonal prevalence of pathogens and parasites in the savannah honeybee (Apis mellifera scutellata)

(2013) Ursula Strauss et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

The distribution of Aspergillus spp. opportunistic parasites in hives and their pathogenicity to honey bees

(2013) Kirsten Foley et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

An Extracellular Subtilase Switch for Immune Priming in Arabidopsis

(2013) Vicente Ramírez et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Costs of immunity in insects: an induced immune response increases metabolic rate and decreases antimicrobial activity

(2012) Daniel R. Ardia et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trans-generational immune priming is constrained by the maternal immune response in an insect

(2012) Jérôme Moreau et al.   OIKOS

Deconstructing honeybee vitellogenin: novel 40 kDa fragment assigned to its N terminus

(2011) H. Havukainen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Social pleiotropy and the molecular evolution of honey bee vitellogenin

(2011) HELI HAVUKAINEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Adaptive evolution of a key gene affecting queen and worker traits in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

(2011) CLEMENT F. KENT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Vitellogenin, a multivalent sensor and an antimicrobial effector

(2010) Shicui Zhang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Pathogen Entrapment by Transglutaminase—A Conserved Early Innate Immune Mechanism

(2010) Zhi Wang et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Vitellogenin is an acute phase protein with bacterial-binding and inhibiting activities

(2009) Zhou Tong et al.   IMMUNOBIOLOGY

Dietary-dependent trans-generational immune priming in an insect herbivore

(2009) D. Freitak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Yolk protein is expressed in the insect testis and interacts with sperm

(2008) Piotr Bebas et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Molecular characteristics of insect vitellogenins

(2008) Muhammad Tufail et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Strain-specific priming of resistance in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

(2008) O. Roth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Innate immunity: Eggs of Manduca sexta are able to respond to parasitism by Trichogramma evanescens

(2007) M. Abdel-latief et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY