Projektnummer

0053250

Zusammenfassung

Parasites are predicted to evolve rapidly and thus provide us with an excellent opportunity for studying fast evolutionary processes. Host defence against parasites relies on the immune system, and research has increasingly made use of insect model species for analysing immune functions. To understand how the insect immune system combats parasites it is necessary to have insight into both immunological mechanisms, and importantly, into how the evolutionary pressures of abundant and rapidly evolving parasites have shaped immune defence. Key to this understanding is knowledge about how t...