Evidence for innate immune memory (or 'priming') in invertebrates has been accumulating
over the last years. We here provide an in-depth review of the current state of evidence for …

Insects possess an immune system that protects them from attacks by various pathogenic
microorganisms that would otherwise threaten their survival. Immune mechanisms may deal …

The immune response of a host to a pathogen is typically described as either innate or
adaptive. The innate form of the immune response is conserved across all organisms …

Insects, which lack the adaptive immune system, have developed sophisticated innate
immune system consisting of humoral and cellular immune responses to defend against …

Drosophila melanogaster has been extensively used to study the humoral arm of innate
immunity because of the developmental and functional parallels with mammalian innate …

Insects are an important model for the study of innate immune systems, but remarkably little
is known about the immune system of other arthropod groups despite their importance as …

Phagocytosis is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that plays a key role in both host
defence and tissue homeostasis in multicellular organisms. A range of surface receptors …

This mini-review summarizes the recent knowledge concerning the role of temperature in
the immune response of insects. The heat-shock is described as a common phenomenon in …

Immune priming has now been demonstrated in a wide range of invertebrate species.
Studies testing this phenomenon largely differ in terms of experimental design, host …

In insects and crustaceans, thousands of Down syndrome cell adhesion molecules (Dscam)
can be generated by alternative splicing of variable exons from a single-locus gene, Dscam …