Durai Sellegounder

Jun 28, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Robin Cooper |Aram Megighian |Durai Sellegounder |Giulia Cattabriga

1 IntroductionThe fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been widely used as a model system to study the insect innate immunity, and it has led to relevant breakthroughs in the immunity field (Lemaitre and Hoffmann, 2007). In Drosophila, humoral antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and the cellular response by hemocytes are the two major reactions that fight pathogens.