Publication Date:
2007-06-26
Description:
Mosquitoes are vectors of parasitic and viral diseases of immense importance for public health. The acquisition of the genome sequence of the yellow fever and Dengue vector, Aedes aegypti (Aa), has enabled a comparative phylogenomic analysis of the insect immune repertoire: in Aa, the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (Ag), and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (Dm). Analysis of immune signaling pathways and response modules reveals both conservative and rapidly evolving features associated with different functional gene categories and particular aspects of immune reactions. These dynamics reflect in part continuous readjustment between accommodation and rejection of pathogens and suggest how innate immunity may have evolved.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2042107/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2042107/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Waterhouse, Robert M -- Kriventseva, Evgenia V -- Meister, Stephan -- Xi, Zhiyong -- Alvarez, Kanwal S -- Bartholomay, Lyric C -- Barillas-Mury, Carolina -- Bian, Guowu -- Blandin, Stephanie -- Christensen, Bruce M -- Dong, Yuemei -- Jiang, Haobo -- Kanost, Michael R -- Koutsos, Anastasios C -- Levashina, Elena A -- Li, Jianyong -- Ligoxygakis, Petros -- Maccallum, Robert M -- Mayhew, George F -- Mendes, Antonio -- Michel, Kristin -- Osta, Mike A -- Paskewitz, Susan -- Shin, Sang Woon -- Vlachou, Dina -- Wang, Lihui -- Wei, Weiqi -- Zheng, Liangbiao -- Zou, Zhen -- Severson, David W -- Raikhel, Alexander S -- Kafatos, Fotis C -- Dimopoulos, George -- Zdobnov, Evgeny M -- Christophides, George K -- 1 R01 AI059492-01A1/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- 5 R01 AI61576-2/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- G0300170/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- GM41247/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GR077229MA/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- P01 AI044220-06A1/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI037083/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM058634/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM058634-09/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Jun 22;316(5832):1738-43.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17588928" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Aedes/*genetics/immunology
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Animals
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Anopheles/*genetics/immunology
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Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides/physiology
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Carrier Proteins/genetics/physiology
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Drosophila melanogaster/genetics/immunology
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*Evolution, Molecular
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Genes, Insect
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Immunity, Innate/*genetics
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Insect Proteins/genetics/physiology
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Insect Vectors/*genetics/immunology
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Malaria/transmission
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Melanins/metabolism
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Multigene Family
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Signal Transduction
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Species Specificity
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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