R H Ffrench-Constant
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Recent Articles
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Chauhan R, Jones R, Wilkinson P, Pauchet Y, Ffrench-Constant R
Insect Mol Biol
. 2013 Jul;
22(5):532-40.
PMID: 23834845
Cytochrome P450s are important both in the metabolism of xenobiotics and the production of compounds such as cyanogenic glucosides, which insects use in their defence. In the present study, we...
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Smith D, Hosken D, Rostant W, Yeo M, Griffin R, Bretman A, et al.
J Evol Biol
. 2011 Apr;
24(6):1351-62.
PMID: 21507117
In Drosophila melanogaster, the DDT resistance allele (DDT-R) is beneficial in the presence of DDT. Interestingly, DDT-R also elevates female fitness in the absence of DDT and existed in populations...
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van Munster M, le Gleuher M, Pauchet Y, Augustin S, Courtin C, Amichot M, et al.
Insect Mol Biol
. 2011 Jan;
20(2):267-78.
PMID: 21205278
Three genes encoding proteins showing sequence similarity and features typical of insect APNs were characterized in C. tremulae and designed as CtAPN1, CtAPN2 and CtAPN3. Expression analysis of the three...
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Eleftherianos I, Joyce S, Ffrench-Constant R, Clarke D, Reynolds S
Parasitology
. 2010 May;
137(11):1695-706.
PMID: 20500922
Photorhabdus sp. are entomopathogenic bacteria which, upon experimental infection, interact with the insect immune system, but little is known about the roles of their symbiotic nematode partners Heterorhabditis sp. in...
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Pauchet Y, Wilkinson P, Vogel H, Nelson D, Reynolds S, Heckel D, et al.
Insect Mol Biol
. 2009 Nov;
19(1):61-75.
PMID: 19909380
The tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta is an important model for insect physiology but genomic and transcriptomic data are currently lacking. Following a recent pyrosequencing study generating immune related expressed sequence...
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Smith D, Hosken D, Ffrench-Constant R, Wedell N
Genet Res (Camb)
. 2009 Jul;
91(4):237-42.
PMID: 19640319
Male Drosophila melanogaster transfers many accessory-gland proteins to females during copulation. Sex peptide (SP) is one of these and one of its main effects is to decrease female remating propensity....
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Eleftherianos I, Felfoldi G, Ffrench-Constant R, Reynolds S
Insect Mol Biol
. 2009 Jun;
18(4):507-16.
PMID: 19538546
Injecting the insect pathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens into the blood system of the model lepidopteran insect Manduca sexta induces nitric oxide synthase (NOS) expression in the fat body and blood...
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Eleftherianos I, Xu M, Yadi H, Ffrench-Constant R, Reynolds S
J Exp Biol
. 2009 Jun;
212(Pt 12):1840-8.
PMID: 19483002
Insect hemocytes (blood cells) are a central part of the insect's cellular response to bacterial pathogens, and these specialist cells can both recognize and engulf bacteria. During this process, hemocytes...
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Eleftherianos I, Baldwin H, Ffrench-Constant R, Reynolds S
J Insect Physiol
. 2007 Nov;
54(1):309-18.
PMID: 18001766
In insect pathogen interactions, host developmental stage is among several factors that influence the induction of immune responses. Here, we show that the effectiveness of immune reactions to a pathogen...