Kafatos:Journal club

Mosquito immunity

Date: 28 February 2013

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Papers chosen

1. Michael: King, J.G., and Hillyer, J.F. (2012). Infection-Induced Interaction between the Mosquito Circulatory and Immune Systems. PLoS Pathog 8, e1003058
2. Mara: in Science, current issue: Fruit Flies Medicate Offspring After Seeing Parasites, Balint Z. Kacsoh, Zachary R. Lynch, Nathan T. Mortimer, Todd A. Schlenke
3. Faye: Anopheles NF-κB-regulated splicing factors direct pathogen-specific repertoires of the hypervariable pattern recognition receptor AgDscam
4. Kate: Murdock, C.C., Paaijmans, K.P., Cox-Foster, D., Read, A.F., and Thomas, M.B. (2012). Rethinking vector immunology: the role of environmental temperature in shaping resistance. Nat Rev Microbiol 10, 869–876.

Mosquito immunity review: Yassine, H., and Osta, M.A. (2010). Anopheles gambiae innate immunity. Cell Microbiol 12, 1–9

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