Host recognition

STRANEY D, KHAN R, TAN R and BAGGA s (2002) Host recognition hy pathogenic fimgi through plant flavonoids. Adv Exp Med Biol. 505 9-22. 

Straney, D. et al., Host recognition by pathogenic fungi through plant flavonoids, in Flavonoids in Cell Function, Buslig, B. and Manthy, J., Eds., Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2002, 9. 

Many Insects have become specialists on crucifers and a few related plant families. These Include flea beetles, leaf beetles, cabbage root fly, aphids, cabbage butterflies and the dlamondback moth. At the same time, several polyphagous Insects such as the cabbage looper, armyworms and aphids are major pests of crucifers. Comparative studies on these specialists and generalists have provided valuable Information on host recognition and possible resistance mechanisms. 

The process of host selection by an insect is complex and involves five major steps host habitat finding, host finding, host recognition, host acceptance, and host suitability (25). 

About 85% of all Insects are holometabolous, and the food plants of larval and adult stages often differ (28). In most holometabolous insects host recognition may have been predetermined for the larva by the ovipositing female ]). In some cases it has been demonstrated that the larva prefers to eat the food upon which they are initially fed (Induction), even if it s not the appropriate host (29). 

Boren, T., Normark, S., Falk, P. (1994) Helicobacter pylori molecular basis for host recognition and bacterial adherence. Trends Microbiol. 2, 221-228. 

A. Imberty Structural glucobiology and host recognition by pathogens... 

Stevens, P.M., Specificity of host-recognition of individuals from different host races of symbiotic pea crabs (Decapoda Pinnotheridae), J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 143, 193, 1990. 

Byers J. A., Birgersson G., Lofqvist J. and Bergstrom G. (1988) Synergistic pheromones and monoterpenes enable aggregation and host recognition by a bark beetle. 

Turillazzi S., Sledge M. F., Dani F. R., Cervo R., Massolo A. and Fondelli L. (2000) Social hackers integration in the host recognition system by a paper wasp social parasite. Naturwissenschaften 87, 172-176. 

Cocoon mimicry biosynthesis and chemical mimicry extreme host specificity host recognition... 

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