Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 52 Insect Immunity

About this book

Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 52: Insect Immunity provides readers with the latest interdisciplinary reviews on the topic. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists, neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists and insect chemists.

Contents

- Insect Antimicrobial Defences: A Brief History, Recent Findings, Biases, and a Way Forward in Evolutionary Studies / Naomi L. P. Keehnen, Jens Rolff, Ulrich Theopold and Christopher W. Wheat
- Microbiota, Gut Physiology, and Insect Immunity / Ji-Hoon Lee, Kyung-Ah Lee and Won-Jae Lee
- Phagocytosis in Insect Immunity / Ashley E. Nazario-Toole and Louisa P. Wu
- Drosophila Intestinal Stem Cells: A Decade of Intensive Research and the Road Ahead / Yiorgos Apidianakis, Vasilia Tamamouna, Savvas Teloni and Chrysoula Pitsouli
- The Melanization Response in Insect Immunity / Johnny Nakhleh, Layla El Moussawi and Mike A. Osta
- Insect Symbiosis and Immunity: The Bean Bug-Burkholderia Interaction as a Case Study / Jiyeun K. Kim and Bok L. Lee
- Exploiting Innate Immunity for Biological Pest Control / Fei Liu, Wuren Huang, Kai Wu, Zhongying Qiu, Yuan Huang and Erjun Ling
- Midgut Interactions of Sandflies and Tsetse with Kinetoplastid Parasites / Megan Sloan and Petros Ligoxygakis

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Biography

Petros Ligoxygakis is a Professor at the University of Oxford