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Humoral Immunity in Cecropia Pupae

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Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology ((CT MICROBIOLOGY,volume 94/95))

Abstract

There are four main reasons to study the factors which in nature regulate the equilibrium between insects and bacteria. Each of these reasons is of such a nature that it could be the subject for a review of its own. However, we will not elaborate but only state the arguments briefly as follows:

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    More than 106 insect species have been described and the number of individuals has been estimated to be as large as 1018 (Wiggelsworth 1968). These high numbers show that during evolution insects have been extremely successful in the competition with other forms of life. Thus, from these numbers alone one would predict that insects are successful in dealing with infections, since otherwise they would not be so numerous.

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  1. Dept. of Microbiology, University of Stockholm, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    Håkan Steiner

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Boman, H.G., Steiner, H. (1981). Humoral Immunity in Cecropia Pupae. In: Henle, W., et al. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 94/95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68120-2_2

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