Beyond thermal melanism: association of wing melanization with fitness and flight behaviour in a butterfly
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.07.015
Abstract: Cold developmental conditions can greatly affect adult life history of ectotherms in seasonal habitats. Such effects are mostly negative, but sometimes adaptive. Here, we tested how cold conditions experienced during pupal development affect adult wing… read more here.
Keywords: butterfly; wing melanization; flight; melanization ... See more keywords
Reduction of spermatophore melanization in Litopenaeus vannamei shrimp fed Ulva clathrata during a commercial hatchery production.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2020.106468
Abstract: Male broodstock (Litopenaeus vannamei, 36 ± 7 g, n = 600) reproductive performance, spermatophores and reproductive tract melanization, prostaglandin concentrations and biochemical composition were evaluated after including 3.8% Ulva clathrata meal in the diet (dry… read more here.
Keywords: litopenaeus vannamei; commercial hatchery; fed ulva; melanization ... See more keywords
Nosema bombycis suppresses host hemolymph melanization through secreted serpin 6 inhibiting the prophenoloxidase activation cascade.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2019.107260
Abstract: Nosema bombycis is a pathogen of the silkworm that belongs to the microsporidia, a group of obligate intracellular parasites related to fungi. N. bombycis infection causes the disease pébrine in silkworms. Insects utilize hemolymph melanization… read more here.
Keywords: bombycis; melanization; hemolymph melanization; host ... See more keywords
Melanization in response to wounding is ancestral in arthropods and conserved in albino cave species
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17471-2
Abstract: Many species adapted to aphotic subterranean habitats have lost all body pigmentation. Yet, melanization is an important component of wound healing in arthropods. We amputated appendages in a variety of cave-adapted and surface-dwelling arthropods. A… read more here.
Keywords: subterranean habitats; melanization; albino cave; cave species ... See more keywords
A secreted phospholipase A2 (BmsPLA2 ) regulates melanization of immunity through BmDDC in the silkworm Bombyx mori.
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DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13194
Abstract: Insect immune-associated phospholipase A2 (PLA2 ) is an important target of pathogen invasion. Melanization, an effective defense response, has significant correlations with other immune responses to coordinate immune attack against invaders. However, the effect of… read more here.
Keywords: phospholipase; bmspla2 regulates; bmspla2; regulates melanization ... See more keywords
C-type lectin 4 regulates broad-spectrum melanization-based refractoriness to malaria parasites
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001515
Abstract: Anopheles gambiae melanization-based refractoriness to the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has rarely been observed in either laboratory or natural conditions, in contrast to the rodent model malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei that can become completely… read more here.
Keywords: based refractoriness; malaria parasite; melanization based; plasmodium ... See more keywords
Acute melanization of silkworm hemolymph by peptidoglycans of the human commensal bacterium Cutibacterium acnes
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271420
Abstract: Cutibacterium acnes is a pathogenic bacterium that cause inflammatory diseases of the skin and intervertebral discs. The immune activation induced by C. acnes requires multiple cellular responses in the host. Silkworm, an invertebrate, generates melanin… read more here.
Keywords: bacterium; silkworm hemolymph; melanization silkworm; melanization ... See more keywords
CLIPB10 is a Terminal Protease in the Regulatory Network That Controls Melanization in the African Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae
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DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.585986
Abstract: Humoral immune responses in animals are often tightly controlled by regulated proteolysis. This proteolysis is exerted by extracellular protease cascades, whose activation culminates in the proteolytic cleavage of key immune proteins and enzymes. A model… read more here.
Keywords: protease; clipb10; network controls; melanization ... See more keywords
Nucleoprotein of a Rice Rhabdovirus Serves as the Effector to Attenuate Hemolymph Melanization and Facilitate Viral Persistent Propagation in its Leafhopper Vector
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DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.904244
Abstract: Melanization in the hemolymph of arthropods is a conserved defense strategy against infection by invading pathogens. Numerous plant viruses are persistently transmitted by insect vectors, and must overcome hemolymph melanization. Here, we determine that the… read more here.
Keywords: effector attenuate; serves effector; hemolymph melanization; vector ... See more keywords
Sericin Ser3 Ectopic Expressed in Posterior Silk Gland Affects Hemolymph Immune Melanization Response via Reducing Melanin Synthesis in Silkworm
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DOI: 10.3390/insects14030245
Abstract: Simple Summary Silkworms have remarkable protein synthesis ability, which is favored by biomaterials and biomedicine researchers. The silk gland is the most concerned target tissue of sericulture. Many studies have focused on introducing exogenous functional… read more here.
Keywords: silk gland; gland; hemolymph; response ... See more keywords