Extensive Diversity of Ig-Superfamily Proteins in the Immune System of Insects

By F. L. Watson, Roland Püttmann-Holgado, F. Thomas, David L. Lamar, Michael Hughes, M. Kondo, V. I. Rebel, D. Schmucker. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Immunology, Insect Science

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Alternative splicing: new insights from global analyses. (2006, background): “…as the brain and testis, or from genes expressed within individual cell types that have undergone selection to provide diverse functions, such as in the immune system (Modrek et al., Cell 126, July 14, 2006 ©2006 Elsevier Inc. 39 2001; Johnson et al., 2003; Yeo et al., 2004; Watson et al., 2005).”
Insect immune priming: ecology and experimental evidences (2016, background): “However, there is not enough experimental evidence to support DSCAM involvement in the immune memory or in the anticipatory immune response (Armitage et al., 2015).”
The evolution of adaptive immune systems. (2006, neutral): “Dscam is a large gene that contains clusters of variable exons ﬂanked by constant exons (Watson et al., 2005).”
The sea urchin immune system (2006, background): “Drosophila has eight Toll genes and humans have eleven, however, plant genomes have hundreds of R genes which have LRRs. Similar to the plant system, the purple sea urchin has a very large array of predicted Toll genes (Pancer and Cooper, 2006).”
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Application of Probiotics in Shrimp Aquaculture: Importance, Mechanisms of Action, and Methods of Administration (2016, background): “There was disagreement concerning the existence of any form of immunological memory such as specific immune priming (Watson et al., 2005; Dong et al., 2006; Powell et al., 2011; Roth and Kurtz, 2010).”
The host defense of Drosophila melanogaster. (2007, background): “It encodes a member of the Ig superfamily with essential function in neuron interconnection (172).”
Trained immunity: a memory for innate host defense. (2011, background): “Alternative splicing of the immunoglobulin (Ig) domain-coding gene Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (Dscam) to produce a highly diverse set of tens of thousands of potential alternative splice forms in insects such as Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae confers an additional mechanism ”