Evolutionary genetics of insect innate immunity

Insect immunity: oral exposure to a bacterial pathogen elicits free radical response and protects from a recurring infection

(2014) Lauri Mikonranta et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

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

Patterns of Positive Selection in Seven Ant Genomes

(2014) Julien Roux et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Automatic multigenic family annotation: risks and solutions

(2014) Nizar Fawal et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Evolutionary rate patterns of genes involved in the Drosophila Toll and Imd signaling pathway

(2013) Ming Han et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The genome- and transcriptome-wide analysis of innate immunity in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens

(2013) Yan-Yuan Bao et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Immune- and wound-dependent differential gene expression in an ancient insect

(2013) Paul R. Johnston et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality

(2013) D. F. Simola et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Accelerated Evolution of Innate Immunity Proteins in Social Insects: Adaptive Evolution or Relaxed Constraint?

(2013) Brock A. Harpur et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Why Time Matters: Codon Evolution and the Temporal Dynamics of dN/dS

(2013) Carina F. Mugal et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction

(2013) Predrag Radivojac et al.   NATURE METHODS

Next Generation Sequencing Based Transcriptome Analysis of Septic-Injury Responsive Genes in the Beetle Tribolium castaneum

(2013) Boran Altincicek et al.   PLoS One

Characterizing the Infection-Induced Transcriptome of Nasonia vitripennis Reveals a Preponderance of Taxonomically-Restricted Immune Genes

(2013) Timothy B. Sackton et al.   PLoS One

Inducible Defenses Stay Up Late: Temporal Patterns of Immune Gene Expression in Tenebrio molitor

(2013) Paul R Johnston et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

The JNK Pathway Is a Key Mediator of Anopheles gambiae Antiplasmodial Immunity

(2013) Lindsey S. Garver et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A comprehensive analysis of the Manduca sexta immunotranscriptome

(2012) Ramesh T. Gunaratna et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Insect Innate Immunity Database (IIID): An Annotation Tool for Identifying Immune Genes in Insect Genomes

(2012) Robert M. Brucker et al.   PLoS One

Rapid Intraspecific Evolution of miRNA and siRNA Genes in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2012) Scott A. Bernhardt et al.   PLoS One

Pyrosequencing-based expression profiling and identification of differentially regulated genes from Manduca sexta, a lepidopteran model insect

(2011) Shuguang Zhang et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Comparison of the humoral and cellular immune responses between body and head lice following bacterial challenge

(2011) Ju Hyeon Kim et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Adaptive Evolution of a Novel Drosophila Lectin Induced by Parasitic Wasp Attack

(2011) E. S. Keebaugh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile)

(2011) C. D. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Antimicrobial peptide-like genes in Nasonia vitripennis: a genomic perspective

(2010) Caihuan Tian et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Adaptive evolution in subterranean termite antifungal peptides

(2010) M. S. Bulmer et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Recent and Recurrent Selective Sweeps of the Antiviral RNAi Gene Argonaute-2 in Three Species of Drosophila

(2010) D. J. Obbard et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Adaptive divergence between incipient species of Anopheles gambiae increases resistance to Plasmodium

(2010) B. J. White et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species

(2010) J. H. Werren et al.   SCIENCE

Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) Nicole M Gerardo et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Comparative profiling of the transcriptional response to infection in two species of Drosophila by short-read cDNA sequencing

(2009) Timothy B Sackton et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Rapid Evolution of Immune Proteins in Social Insects

(2009) L. Viljakainen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular Evolution of Immune Genes in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

(2009) Tovi Lehmann et al.   PLoS One

Quantifying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System

(2009) Darren J. Obbard et al.   PLoS Genetics

The evolution of TEP1, an exceptionally polymorphic immunity gene in Anopheles gambiae

(2008) Darren J Obbard et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Natural selection on the Drosophila antimicrobial immune system

(2008) Brian P Lazzaro   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

A genome-wide analysis of genes and gene families involved in innate immunity of Bombyx mori

(2008) Hiromitsu Tanaka et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Selection on an Antimicrobial Peptide Defensin in Ants

(2008) Lumi Viljakainen et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The evolution of RNAi as a defence against viruses and transposable elements

(2008) D. J Obbard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES