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Circadian rhythms in insect disease vectors
Antonio Carlos Alves Meireles Filho
Organisms from bacteria to humans have evolved under predictable daily environmental cycles owing to the Earth's rotation. This strong selection pressure has generated endogenous circadian clocks that regulate many aspects of behaviour, physiology and meta ...
Fundaco Oswaldo Cruz2013Impact of Mycobacterium ulcerans biofilm on transmissibility to ecological niches and Buruli ulcer pathogenesis
Stewart Cole, Petra Tafelmeyer
The role of biofilms in the pathogenesis of mycobacterial diseases remains largely unknown. Mycobacterium ulcerans, the etiological agent of Buruli ulcer, a disfiguring disease in humans, adopts a biofilm-like structure in vitro and in vivo, displaying an ...
2007A single gene that promotes interaction of a phytopathogenic bacterium with its insect vector, Drosophila melanogaster
Insects are major vectors of plant and animal disease, and bacterial phytopathogens are often disseminated by flies. We have previously reported that some isolates of the phytopathogenic bacterial species Erwinia carotovora infect Drosophila and activate a ...
Nature Publishing Group2003Molecular interactions between the specialist herbivore Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) and its natural host Nicotiana attenuata. III. Fatty acid-amino acid conjugates in herbivore oral secretions are necessary and sufficient for herbivore-specific plant responses
Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institut for Chemical Ecology, Carl Zeiss Promenade 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany. Feeding by the tobacco specialist Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) and application of larval oral secretions and regurgitant ( ...
2001The phytopathogenic bacteria Erwinia carotovora infects Drosophila and activates an immune response
Although Drosophila possesses potent immune responses, little is known about the microbial pathogens that infect Drosophila. We have identified members of the bacterial genus Erwinia that induce the systemic expression of genes encoding antimicrobial pepti ...
National Academy of Sciences2000