Effects of lamellolysin from a parasitoid wasp on Drosophila blood cells in vitro.

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Effects of lamellolysin from a parasitoid wasp on Drosophila blood cells in vitro.

The Journal of experimental zoology - 1 Feb 1991

Rizki R M, Rizki T M

Abstract excerpt

Female parasitoid Leptopilina heterotoma inject a factor, lamellolysin, along with their eggs into the host hemocoel to destroy selectively host hemocytes that encapsulate foreign objects. In parasitized Drosophila melanogaster larvae, these hemocytes (lamellocytes) change from discoidal cells to...

Topics

Animals
Biological Factors
Cell Adhesion
Cells, Cultured
Crosses, Genetic
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Hemocytes
Larva
Male
Mutation
Wasps

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