Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Yanagawa A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5679552 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yanagawa Aya A Neyen Claudine C Lemaitre Bruno B Marion-Poll Frédéric F
PloS one 20171109 11
Behavioral resistance protects insects from microbial infection. However, signals inducing insect hygiene behavior are still relatively unexplored. Our previous study demonstrated that olfactory signals from microbes enhance insect hygiene behavior, and gustatory signals even induce the behavior. In this paper, we postulated a cross-talk between behavioral resistance and innate immunity. To examine this hypothesis, we employed a previously validated behavioral test to examine the function of tas ...[more]