Influence of blood-feeding and infection on arthropod hemocytes.

IF 5.8 1区农林科学 Q1 BIOLOGY Current opinion in insect science Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI:10.1016/j.cois.2025.101341

George-Rafael Samantsidis, Shahid Karim, Ryan C Smith

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Blood-feeding provides essential nutrients for development and reproduction in hematophagous arthropods, yet also initiates significant other physiological alterations in immune function. Immune cells, or hemocytes, are integral components of the arthropod innate immune system with notable roles in defining vector competence. Evidence suggests that both blood-feeding and infection drive substantial changes in hemocyte phenotypes, including proliferation, immune activation, and differentiation, which directly and indirectly influence pathogen infection outcomes. These dynamics have fueled extensive research into hemocyte biology in recent years, which aided by emerging single-cell technologies and methods of phagocyte depletion, have provided novel molecular insights into hemocyte populations and additional support for their important contributions to parasite, virus, and bacterial infections. Despite this progress, many aspects of arthropod immune cell biology remain unclear. Focusing on mosquitoes and ticks as two of the most prominent and well-studied arthropod vectors, this review summarizes the effects of blood-feeding and infection on mosquito and tick hemocytes, highlighting hemocyte classifications, and the known mechanisms by which hemocytes can have positive or negative impacts on vector-borne pathogen infection.

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Current opinion in insect science BIOLOGYECOLOGYENTOMOLOGY-ECOLOGY

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期刊介绍： Current Opinion in Insect Science is a new systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up–to–date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of Insect Science. As this is such a broad discipline, we have determined themed sections each of which is reviewed once a year. The following 11 areas are covered by Current Opinion in Insect Science. -Ecology -Insect genomics -Global Change Biology -Molecular Physiology (Including Immunity) -Pests and Resistance -Parasites, Parasitoids and Biological Control -Behavioural Ecology -Development and Regulation -Social Insects -Neuroscience -Vectors and Medical and Veterinary Entomology There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. Section Editors, who are major authorities in their area, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors commission articles from leading scientists on each topic that they have selected and the commissioned authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.