Identification and analysis of Toll-related genes in the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori

• Published in: Developmental and comparative immunology Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 464 - 475
• Main Authors: Cheng, Ting-Cai, Zhang, Yu-Li, Liu, Chun, Xu, Ping-Zhen, Gao, Zhi-hong, Xia, Qing-You, Xiang, Zhong-Huai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Ltd 2008
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Anopheles; Base Sequence; Bombyx - classification; Bombyx - genetics; Bombyx - immunology; Bombyx mori; Conserved Sequence; Drosophila; Expression; Gene Expression Profiling; Genes, Insect; Immunity, Innate; Immunization; Innate immunity; Lepidoptera; Microarray; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; Toll-Like Receptors - genetics; Toll-related genes; Innate immunity; Bombyx mori; Microarray; Expression; Toll-related genes

Silkworm ( Bombyx mori), a model system for Lepidoptera, has contributed enormously to the study of insect immunology especially in humoral immunity. But little is known about the molecular mechanism of immune response in the silkworm. Toll receptors are a group of evolutionarily ancient proteins, w...