ArticleScientific reports2017
Sex-Specific Routes To Immune Senescence In Drosophila melanogaster.
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- Adverse impact of female reproductive signaling on age-dependent neurodegeneration after mild head trauma ineLife · 2024Article
- Lysine-36 of Drosophila histone H3.3 supports adult longevity.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Lysine-36 ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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- The molecular architecture of Drosophila melanogaster defense against Beauveria bassiana explored through evolve and resequence and quantitative trait locus mapping.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Article
- Functional conservation in genes and pathways linking ageing and immunity.Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2021Review
- The Impact of Age on Response to Infection inMicroorganisms · 2021Review
- Sexual Dimorphisms in Innate Immunity and Responses to Infection inFrontiers in immunology · 2019Review
- The interplay between immunity and aging inF1000Research · 2018Review
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Abstract
Animal immune systems change dramatically during the ageing process, often accompanied by major increases in pathogen susceptibility. However, the extent to which senescent elevations in infection mortality are causally driven by deteriorations in canonical systemic immune processes is unclear. We studied Drosophila melanogaster and compared the relative contributions of impaired systemic immune defences and deteriorating barrier defences to increased pathogen susceptibility in aged flies. To assess senescent changes in systemic immune response efficacy we injected one and four-week old flies with the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana and studied subsequent mortality; whereas to include the role of barrier defences we infected flies by dusting the cuticle with fungal spores. We show that the processes underlying pathogen defence senescence differ between males and females. Both sexes became more susceptible to infection as they aged. However, we conclude that for males, this was principally due to deterioration in barrier defences, whereas for females systemic immune defence senescence was mainly responsible. We discuss the potential roles of sex-specific selection on the immune system and behavioural variation between males and females in driving these different senescent trends.
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