The innate immune system of insects is divided into humoral and cellular defense
responses. Humoral defenses include antimicrobial peptides, the cascades that regulate …

Lepidopteran insects provide important model systems for innate immunity of insects,
particularly for cell biology of hemocytes and biochemical analyses of plasma proteins …

The innate immune system of insects is divided into humoral defenses that include the
production of soluble effector molecules and cellular defenses like phagocytosis and …

Aquaculture production has made impressive progress during the past two decades
especially with regards to crustaceans, such as shrimp, prawn and lobster. Research in …

▪ Abstract Wasp parasitoids use a variety of methods to commandeer their insect hosts in
order to create an environment that will support and promote their own development, usually …

We review recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of insect immune
defence, but do so in a framework defined by the ecological and evolutionary forces that …

Arthropod hemolymph contains proteins with serine proteinase inhibitory activity. These
inhibitors may exist in plasma or in hemocyte granules. Serine proteinase inhibitors from the …

Extracellular serine proteinase cascades have evolved in vertebrates and invertebrates to
mediate rapid, local reactions to physiological or pathological cues. In mammalian plasma, a …

Recent studies suggest that insects use pattern recognition molecules to distinguish
prokaryotic pathogens and fungi from “self” structures. Less understood is how the innate …

Encapsulation and nodulation in insects Page 1 ISJ 13: 229-246, 2016 ISSN 1824-307X
REVIEW Encapsulation and nodulation in insects Dubovskiy IM1, Kryukova NA1, Glupov VV1 …