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Zi-Wen Teng1,2, Hui-Zi Wu2, Xin-Hai Ye2

  • 1China-Australia Cooperation Base of Crop Health and Invasive Species, China-Australia Joint Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Health, College of Plant Health and Medicine, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.

Insect Science
|October 23, 2021
PubMed
Summary

Researchers identified 379 egg surface proteins in the parasitoid Cotesia chilonis, revealing novel proteins that suppress host immune responses. These findings suggest endoparasitoid egg surface proteins are key factors in parasitism and host immune regulation.

Keywords:
egg surface proteinimmune regulationmelanizationparasitism factorparasitoid wasp

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