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

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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 bipolar cells that no longer adhere to each other to form capsules. To study the effects of lamellolysin on Drosophila...

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