Milutinović, Barbara; Schmitt, Thomas (2022) Chemical cues in disease recognition and their immunomodulatory role in insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 50 (100884). ISSN 2214-5745
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Abstract
Preventing infections is crucial for host fitness and many insects modify their behaviour upon sensing contagion in the environment. We review chemical cues that mediate insect behaviour in response to parasites. Considering the large diversity of behavioural disease defences described, surprisingly little is known about disease-associated cues that mediate such responses, especially their mechanistic receptor and neuronal details. Interestingly, olfaction does not only influence host behaviour, but it could play a direct role in immune system activation via neuroendocrine regulation, bypassing the need for the risky immunological contact with the parasite. We believe such crosstalk is an exciting emerging research area in insect ecological immunology that should prove invaluable in studying host-parasite interactions by combining analytical methods from chemical ecology.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | host-parasite interactions, sickness cues, disease recognition, volatile organic compounds (VOCs); cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs); behavioural defence; chemical cue-immunity crosstalk; neuroendocrine immunomodulation | ||||||||
| Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Chemistry NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology > Ecology |
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| Divisions: | Division of Molecular Biology | ||||||||
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| Depositing User: | Barbara Milutinović | ||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2022 13:40 | ||||||||
| URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/7038 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cois.2022.100884 |
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