Comparative genomic analysis of the Triboliumimmune system (2007)
Zou, Zhen, Evans, Jay D, Lu, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Picheng, Williams, Michael, Sumathipala, Niranji, ...
Abstract Background Tribolium castaneum is a species of Coleoptera, the largest and most diverse order of all eukaryotes. Components of the innate immune system are hardly known in this insect, which...
'Smoke gets in your eyes': American writers on the opium issue in China, 1840--1860 (2006)
The opium issue in nineteenth-century China was so prevalent that no student of early modern Chinese history could afford to ignore it. It was the direct cause of the first war between China and a...
Regulation of prophenoloxidase-activating proteinases in Manduca sexta (2005)
To survive and prosper in pathogen-rich environments, insects have to rely on their innate immune system to fight against invading pathogens or parasites. Innate immunity is evolutionarily conserved...
Comparative genomic analysis of the Tribolium immune system
Zou, Zhen, Evans, Jay D, Lu, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Picheng, Williams, Michael, Sumathipala, Niranji, ...
The annotation, and comparison with homologous genes in other species, of immunity-related genes in the Tribolium castaneum genome allowed the identification of around 300 candidate defense proteins,...