Broad Ultrastructural and Transcriptomic Changes Underlie the Multinucleated Giant Hemocyte Mediated Innate Immune Response against Parasitoids

• Main Authors: Gyöngyi Cinege (Author), Lilla B. Magyar (Author), Attila L. Kovács (Author), Zita Lerner (Author), Gábor Juhász (Author), David Lukacsovich (Author), Jochen Winterer (Author), Tamás Lukacsovich (Author), Zoltán Hegedűs (Author), Éva Kurucz (Author), Dan Hultmark (Author), Csaba Földy (Author), István Andó (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Multinucleated giant hemocytes (MGHs) represent a novel type of blood cell in insects that participate in a highly efficient immune response against parasitoid wasps involving isolation and killing of the parasite. Previously, we showed that circulating MGHs have high motility and the interaction wi...