Publications by authors named "Caifei Huo"
Article Synopsis
- The Culex (Cx.) pipiens complex mosquitoes are important disease vectors, transmitting illnesses like West Nile fever and Japanese encephalitis.
- The study focuses on the Toll pathway, a key part of the mosquito immune system, particularly analyzing MyD88, a critical protein in this pathway.
- Findings suggest that adaptive selection has led to significant genetic changes in MyD88, which enhance our understanding of mosquito immunity and could improve the effectiveness of biocontrol strategies against these disease vectors.
Diversification of Toll-like receptor 1 in swamp eel (Monopterus albus).
Dev Comp Immunol
August 2024
Toll-like receptor 1 (TLR1) is a pattern recognition receptor that plays critical roles in triggering immune activation via detecting bacterial lipoproteins and lipopeptides. In this study, the genetic characteristic of TLR1 was studied for an important aquaculture fish, swamp eel Monopterus albus. The eel has been seriously threatened by infectious diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe swamp eel, Monopterus albus, is an important aquaculture species in Asia (mainly China) whose production has seriously suffered from infectious diseases. In spite of the critical requirement for aquaculture practices, to date there is scant information on its immune defence. Here, the genetic characteristics of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), which plays crucial roles in the initiation of host defence against microbial invasion, were analysed.
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