Host-Pathogen Interactions: Insects vs Fungi

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: alkaloids; antimicrobial activity; antimicrobial peptides; appressorium formation; arthropods; bassianolide; beauvericin; biological activity; biological control; Buxus; Chilo suppressalis; conidiation; Cordyceps militaris; cross-kingdom interactions; CYP450; dual gene expression; entomopathogen; entomopathogenic fungi; field production; food-web cycling; fungal–bacteria interactions; genomics; Geometridae; gut-histology; host defense; Hypocreales; identification; immune defense; immunity; immunocompetence; insects; invasive pests; isolation; larva; limpet; Metarhizium robertsii; microbial community; mortality; moth; mycoses; mycotoxins; n/a; nematophagous fungi; next generation sequencing; non-toxicity; pathogenicity; pathogens; pest control; phytophagous nematodes; pupa; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; resistant triatomines; sex; soil DNA analyses; soil properties; soilborne fungal pathogens; spontaneous bacterioses; stress response; sustainable management; Tenebrio molitor; transcriptome; two-spotted field crickets; virulence; Woronin body; α-cypermethrin
• ISBN: 9783036510651; 3036510648; 9783036510644; 3036510656
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-1065-1

Although many insects successfully live in dangerous environments exposed to diverse communities of microbes, they are often exploited and killed by specialist pathogens. In the process of the co-evolution of insects and entomopathogenic microorganisms, they develop various adaptive systems that determine the sustainable existence of dynamic host–parasite interactions at both the organismic and population levels.