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Pesticides degradation by insect gut bacteria |
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Answer» Insects are the largest group of animals on earth. Like mammals, virus, fungi, bacteria and parasites infect them. Several tissue barriers and defense mechanisms are common for VERTEBRATES and invertebrates. Therefore some insects, notably the fly Drosophila and the CATERPILLAR Galleria mellonella, have been used as MODELS to study HOST–pathogen interactions for several insect and mammal pathogens. They are excellent tools to identify pathogen determinants and host tissue cell responses. We focus here on the comparison of … |
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