Parasitoid Jewel Wasp Mounts Multipronged Neurochemical Attack to Hijack a Host Brain.
Arvidson R, Kaiser M, Lee SS, Urenda JP, Dail C, Mohammed H, Nolan C, Pan S, Stajich JE, Libersat F, Adams ME.
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Mol Cell Proteomics. 2019 Jan;18(1):99-114. doi: 10.1074/mcp.RA118.000908. Epub 2018 Oct 6.
Mol Cell Proteomics. 2019.
PMID: 30293061
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Injection of fully processed tachykinin into host cephalic ganglia elicits short-term hypokinesia. Ion channel modifiers and cytolytic toxins are absent in A. compressa venom, which appears to hijack control of the host brain by introducing a "storm" of its own neurochemic …
Injection of fully processed tachykinin into host cephalic ganglia elicits short-term hypokinesia. Ion channel modifiers and cytolyti …