Danne123 - 7-6-2008 at 03:51
Woodlice is that an eukaryote creature?
How does the woodlice immunsystem looks like? Do they got dendritic cells, mast cells as humans?
EDIT:
I just got a brand new microscope and I am reading biotechnology at school. Anyone got any recommendation about an insect that you can see cells
clear? Looking at one ant now. Something was moving but that could be ant acid.
[Edited on 7-6-2008 by Danne123]
panziandi - 7-6-2008 at 04:37
Woodlice are a eukaryotic organism. However since they are not vertebrates they do not posses an adaptive immunesystem. They only have an innate
immune system. AFAIK They only produce antimicrobial peptides and no globulins (so they do not have specific immune responses as mammals do with
antibodies). I googled quickly and found two pages which give an introduction to this subject (not in relation to woodlice) and also cover the
peptides.
http://entomology.unl.edu/ent801/humimm.html
http://focosi.immunesig.org/immunityinsects.html
not_important - 7-6-2008 at 05:37
More specifically they are crustaceans, so looking for information on those will likely be the most fruitful - given the economic value of some
crustaceans you're likely to find research centered around those species.
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/24126/
http://www.engormix.com/a_bacillus_probiont_for_e_articles_3...
http://www.jimmunol.org/cgi/content/abstract/179/11/7209
JohnWW - 7-6-2008 at 16:29
Here we called them "slaters", a native speces of woodlouse, about 1 cm long and slate-grey in color, which lives in and on damp decaying vegetable
matter, and shuns daylight.
Danne123 - 8-6-2008 at 13:10
Thanks guys
Feels good to be back here again 