Interaction between immune system of adult Drosophila melanogaster with entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditidoides rugaoensis and its symbiotic bacterium Serratia nematodiphila R187
[Objectives]This study focused on interaction mechanism between H. rugaoensis/S. nematophila R187 complex and humoral immune system in Drosophila melanogaster infected by the nematode/bacteria complex. [Methods]Three methods,nematode with symbiotic bacteria strain R187 infecting flies,needle-pricking the fly with the symbiotic bacterial strain R187 and feeding flies with symbiotic bacterium,were conducted to tranfer the bacterial strain R187 into hemocoel or intestine of flies. Lethal rate of flies and colo...