Differential Water Mite Parasitism, Phenoloxidase Activity, and Resistance to Mites Are Unrelated across Pairs of Related Damselfly Species

Defense strategies used by two sympatric vineyard moth pests

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Prophenoloxidase Activation Is Required for Survival to Microbial Infections in Drosophila

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Caspase-1-Like Regulation of the proPO-System and Role of ppA and Caspase-1-Like Cleaved Peptides from proPO in Innate Immunity

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Association between host's genetic diversity and parasite burden in damselflies

(2013) K. M. Kaunisto et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Relative geographic range of sibling species of host damselflies does not reliably predict differential parasitism by water mites

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Current immunity markers in insect ecological immunology: assumed trade-offs and methodological issues

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Higher gregarine parasitism often in sibling species of host damselflies with smaller geographical distributions

(2012) JULIA J. MLYNAREK et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Thermal environment shapes cuticle melanism and melanin-based immunity in the ground cricket Allonemobius socius

(2012) Kenneth M. Fedorka et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Maintenance of polymorphic females: do parasites play a role?

(2012) R. A. Sánchez-Guillén et al.   OECOLOGIA

Biogeographical Survey Identifies Consistent Alternative Physiological Optima and a Minor Role for Environmental Drivers in Maintaining a Polymorphism

(2012) Arne Iserbyt et al.   PLoS One

Immune response to nylon filaments in two damselfly species that differ in their resistance to ectoparasitic mites

(2011) LAURA NAGEL et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Phenoloxidase: a key component of the insect immune system

(2011) Isaac González-Santoyo et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Phenoloxidase activity and melanization do not always covary with sexual trait expression in Hetaerina damselflies (Insecta: Calopterygidae)

(2010) González-Santoyo et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Phenoloxidase but not lytic activity reflects resistance against Pasteuria ramosa in Daphnia magna

(2010) K. Pauwels et al.   Biology Letters

Genetic diversity, parasite prevalence and immunity in wild bumblebees

(2010) P. R. Whitehorn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inter-annual variation in prevalence and intensity of mite parasitism relates to appearance and expression of damselfly resistance

(2010) Laura Nagel et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

The insect immune response and other putative defenses as effective predictors of parasitism

(2009) Angela M. Smilanich et al.   ECOLOGY

Host ecology shapes geographical variation for resistance to bacterial infection in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Vanessa Corby-Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Activation of Insect Phenoloxidase after Injury: Endogenous versus Foreign Elicitors

(2008) Gawa Bidla et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

A Signaling Protease Required for Melanization in Drosophila Affects Resistance and Tolerance of Infections

(2008) Janelle S Ayres et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY