Sentences with word «hemolymph»

Similarly, we show that the mite can also vector RNAi - triggers, which were acquired from hemolymph of bees that had consumed dsRNA.

Because there is a strong correlation between abdominal and heart contractions, we tested whether abdominal contractions play a direct role in altering hemolymph flow in the abdominal hemocoel.

If the pathogen or parasite makes it through the gut barrier, it has to make its way through the mosquito's blood - like fluid, called hemolymph, which contains circulating immune cells, called hemocytes, which are similar to our white blood cells.

This is an Anopheles gambiae mosquito being injected with hemolymph for a malaria research study.

When hunger strikes, the adult queen and worker ants visit the colony's nursery and cut holes into their own larvae to feed on hemolymph, the equivalent of insect blood.

Modifying their expression in the fat body affects ILP secretion from the insulin - producing cells, thereby changing ILP concentrations in the circulating hemolymph.

Similarly, during retrograde heart contractions hemolymph is expelled from the dorsal vessel through an excurrent opening located in the 8th abdominal segment (Figure 1A)[3].

Once inside a victim, the fungus feasts on the doomed creature's bloodlike hemolymph, nimbly evading prey defenses with tricks, some unknown to science.

For an ILP2 western blot analysis, we extracted hemolymph from 24 h AL3E larvae.

Observation of microsphere movement in the lateral and ventral portions of the abdomen revealed that flow in the abdominal cavity is variable due to the lack of distinct hemolymph vessels.

As the mosquito feeds, the infective larvae erupt through the tip of the labium with a small amount of hemolymph onto the host's skin.

Insect «blood» is called hemolymph.

The collisionsspeckled our windshield with hemolymph.

When the fungus is finished dining on hemolymph, usually after a few days, it simply eats its way out

In the tick vector ehrlichia exist and replicate in the gut epithelium and hemolymph of the infected tick.

«Varroa mites attach to honeybees and suck their hemolymph, which is similar to blood in humans.»

These are soft - shell clams (Mya arenaria) from a seafood market in New York that are sitting on the lab bench while their hemolymph is checked for the presence of neoplastic cells.

Most well - characterized effector molecules in other insects are secreted into the hemolymph: in our study, 91.2 % of previously identified AMPs have bioinformatic evidence indicating presence of a signal peptide.

Furthermore, GBP1 and GBP2 are secreted into the hemolymph in Drosophila [18,19] and GBP1 expression has been shown to be sensitive to starvation and TOR signaling [20,21].

It has been shown previously that, when dilp2 transcription is constant, increased Dilp2 within the cytoplasm of IPCs reflects decreased Dilp2 release into the hemolymph, and intracellular Dilp2 has been used as a sign of Dilp2 retention in the IPCs [10].

The hemolymph was extracted on ice.

A recent paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry describes how they found that this protein was structurally similar to mosquito salivary proteins important for parasite transmission during blood feeding, but that it was present in the hemolymph of both male and female adult mosquitoes.