| Literature DB >> 23147703 |
Courtney C Murdock1, Krijn P Paaijmans, Diana Cox-Foster, Andrew F Read, Matthew B Thomas.
Abstract
Recent ecological research has revealed that environmental factors can strongly affect insect immunity and influence the outcome of host-parasite interactions. To date, however, most studies examining immune function in mosquitoes have ignored environmental variability. We argue that one such environmental variable, temperature, influences both vector immunity and the parasite itself. As temperatures in the field can vary greatly from the ambient temperature in the laboratory, it will be essential to take temperature into account when studying vector immunology.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID： 23147703 PMCID： PMC4142813 DOI： 10.1038/nrmicro2900
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Microbiol ISSN： 1740-1526 Impact factor: 60.633