Arrest of oogenesis in the bug Rhodnius prolixus challenged with the fungus Aspergillus niger is mediated by immune response-derived PGE2.

Medeiros MN, Belmonte R, Soares BC, Medeiros LN, Canetti C, Freire-de-Lima CG, Maya-Monteiro CM, Bozza PT, Almeida IC, Masuda H, Kurtenbach E, Machado EA. Arrest of oogenesis in the bug Rhodnius prolixus challenged with the fungus Aspergillus niger is mediated by immune response-derived PGE2. J Insect Physiol. 2009 Feb; 55(2):150-7.

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subject areas

Adaptation, Biological
Analysis of Variance
Animals
Aspergillus niger
Dinoprostone
Female
Mass Spectrometry
Oogenesis
Ovary
Rhodnius
Zymosan

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Igor C. Almeida

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