Recent Advances on Model Hosts

1. Amoeba Provide Insight into the Origin of Virulence in Pathogenic Fungi
Arturo Casadevall

2. Of Model Hosts and Man: Using Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster and Galleria mellonella as Model Hosts for Infectious Disease Research
Justin Glavis-Bloom, Maged Muhammed, Eleftherios Mylonakis

3.
Caenorhabditis elegans as an Alternative Model to Study Senescence of Host Defense and the Prevention by Immunonutrition
Tomomi Komura, Takanori Ikeda, Kaori Hoshino, Ayumi Shibamura, Yoshikazu Nishikawa

4. Bacterial Effectors: Learning on the Fly
Laurent Boyer, Nicholas Paquette, Neal Silverman, Lynda M. Stuart

5. A Drosophila Asthma Model – What the Fly Tells Us About Inflammatory Diseases of the Lung
Thomas Roeder, Kerstin Isermann, Kim Kallsen, Karin Uliczka, Christina Wagner

6. Elucidating the In Vivo Targets of Photorhabdus Toxins in Real-Time Using Drosophila Embryos
Isabella Vlisidou, Nicholas Waterfield, Will Wood

7. Ecological Niche Modeling as a Tool for Understanding Distributions and Interactions of Vectors, Hosts, and Etiologic Agents of Chagas Disease
Jane Costa, A. Townsend Peterson

8. Where Simplicity Meets Complexity: Hydra, a Model for Host–Microbe Interactions
René Augustin, Sebastian Fraune, Sören Franzenburg, Thomas C. G. Bosch

9. Tick as a Model for the Study of a Primitive Complement System
Petr Kopacek, Ondrej Hajdusek, Veronika Buresova

10. Models Hosts for the Study of Oral Candidiasis
Juliana Campos Junqueira

11. Creating a Pro-survival and Anti-inflammatory Phenotype by Modulation of Acetylation in Models of Hemorrhagic and Septic Shock
Yongqing Li, Hasan B. Alam

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