This review summarizes the research progress made over the past decade in the field of
gastropod immunity resulting from investigations of the interaction between the snail …

Over their 500 million year history, gastropods have radiated into marine, freshwater and
terrestrial environments and adopted life styles ranging from herbivory to carnivory to …

Schistosomiasis, a devastating disease caused by parasitic flatworms of the genus
Schistosoma, affects over 260 million people worldwide especially in tropical and sub …

For many decades, invertebrate immunity was believed to be non-adaptive, poorly specific,
relying exclusively on sometimes multiple but germ-line encoded innate receptors and …

Aerolysins are virulence factors belonging to the β pore-forming toxin (β-PFT) superfamily
that are abundantly distributed in bacteria. More rarely, β-PFTs have been described in …

Schistosoma mansoni and Echinostoma caproni are two trematode species that use
different strategies (mimicry and immunosuppression, respectively) to interfere with the snail …

Immunologists, perhaps understandably, most often concentrate on the human immune
system, an anthropocentric focus that has resulted in a dearth of information about the …

The first proteomic analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi resistance to Benznidazole (BZ) is
presented. The differential proteome of T. cruzi with selected in vivo resistance to …

Sessile inhabitants of marine intertidal environments commonly face heat stress, an
important component of summer mortality syndrome in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas …

A 70-mer-oligonucleotide-based microarray (1152 features) that emphasizes stress and
immune responses factors was constructed to study transcriptomic responses of the snail …