Yellow Biotechnology I

Utility of Insects for Studying Human Pathogens and Evaluating New Antimicrobial Agents, by Yan Wang, De-Dong Li, Yuan-Ying Jiang and Eleftherios Mylonakis. Galleria Mellonella as a Model Host to Study Gut Microbe Homeostasis and Brain Infection by the Human Pathogen Listeria Monocytogenes, by Krishnendu Mukherjee, Ramya Raju, Rainer Fischer and Andreas Vilcinskas. Drosophila as a Model to Study Metabolic Disorders, by Julia Hoffmann, Renja Romey, Christine Fink and Thomas Roeder. The Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster as a Model for Aging Research, by Annely Brandt and Andreas Vilcinskas. Drosophila and the Hallmarks of Cancer, by Theodoulakis Christofi and Yiorgos Apidianakis. The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum as a model to monitor food safety and functionality, by Stefanie Grünwald, Iris V. Adam, Ana-Maria Gurmai, Ludmila Bauer, Michael Boll, and Uwe Wenzel. Identification and Bioanalysis of Natural Products from Insect Symbionts and Pathogens, by Alexander O. Brachmann and Helge B. Bode. Antiparasitic Peptides, by Jette Pretzel, Franziska Mohring, Stefan Rahlfs and Katja Becker.

Covers trends in modern biotechnology All aspects of this interdisciplinary technology, where knowledge, methods and expertise are required from chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, chemical engineering and computer science, are treated More information as well as the electronic version available at springer.com Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Yan Wang, De-Dong Li, Yuan-Ying Jiang and Eleftherios Mylonakis
Utility of Insects for Studying Human Pathogens and Evaluating New Antimicrobial Agents

Krishnendu Mukherjee, Ramya Raju, Rainer Fischer and Andreas Vilcinskas
Galleria Mellonella as a Model Host to Study Gut Microbe Homeostasis and Brain Infection by the Human Pathogen Listeria Monocytogenes

DisordersJulia Hoffmann, Renja Romey, Christine Fink and Thomas Roeder
Drosophila as a Model to Study Metabolic

Annely Brandt and Andreas Vilcinskas
The Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster as a Model for Aging Research

Theodoulakis Christofi and Yiorgos Apidianakis
Drosophila and the Hallmarks of Cancer

Stefanie Grünwald, Iris V. Adam, Ana-Maria Gurmai, Ludmila Bauer, Michael Boll, and Uwe Wenzel
The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum as a model to monitor food safety and functionality

Alexander O. Brachmann and Helge B. Bode
Identification and Bioanalysis of Natural Products from Insect Symbionts and Pathogens

Jette Pretzel, Franziska Mohring, Stefan Rahlfs and Katja Becker
Antiparasitic Peptides