Ticks are ectoparasitic arthropods that necessarily feed on the blood of their vertebrate
hosts. The success of blood acquisition depends on the pharmacological properties of tick …

Parasitic diseases represent major global health problems of immense proportion.
Schistosomiasis, malaria, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and African sleeping sickness …

The publication of the first tick sialome (salivary gland transcriptome) heralded a new era of
research of tick protease inhibitors, which represent important constituents of the proteins …

Drosophila melanogaster seminal fluid proteins stimulate sperm storage and egg laying in
the mated female but also cause a reduction in her life span. We report here that of eight …

To obtain an insight into the salivary transcriptome and proteome (sialome) of the adult
female mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, a cDNA library was randomly sequenced, and …

Sea urchins possess an innate immune system and are regarded as a potential source for
the discovery of new antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Here we report the purification and …

The last three decades of research into tick salivary components have revealed several
proteins with important pharmacological and immunological activities. Two primary interests …

Ticks are obligate blood feeding ectoparasites that transmit a wide variety of pathogenic
microorganisms to their vertebrate hosts. Amblyomma sculptum is vector of Rickettsia …

The presence of an effective immune response in the hemocoel of arthropods is essential for
survival as it prevents the invasion of pathogens throughout the animal body. Antimicrobial …

Entomopathogenic fungi, such as Beauveria bassiana, penetrate the insect cuticle using a
plethora of hydrolytic enzymes including cuticle-degrading proteases and chitinases, which …