GATTI , Jean-Luc

Drosophila melanogaster is a model organism for many fields in biology including immunology.Drosophila innate immunity is well described in case of bacterial and fungal infections but otherparasites, such as parasitoids, can be harmful and even lethal to Drosophila.We are working on the immune interaction between Drosophila larvae and the...

Venosomes are extracellular vesicles found in the venom of Leptopilina endoparasitoids wasps, which transport and target virulence factors to impair the parasitoid egg encapsulation by the lamellocytes of their Drosophila melanogaster host larva. Using the co-immunolocalization of fluorescent L. boulardi venosomes and one of the...

Behavioural avoidance has obvious benefits for animals facing environmental stressors such as pathogen-contaminated foods. Most current bioinsecticides are based on the environmental and opportunistic bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis ( Bt ) that kills targeted insect pests upon ingestion. While food and oviposition avoidance of Bt...

Behavioural avoidance has obvious benefits for animals facing environmental stressors such as pathogen-contaminated foods. Most current bioinsecticides are based on the environmental and opportunistic bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis ( Bt ) that kills targeted insect pests upon ingestion. While food and oviposition avoidance of Bt...

Leptopilina boulardi wasps are parasitoids that develop inside Drosophila melanogaster larvae by consuming their tissues, leading to the host death. They rely on venom injection at oviposition to circumvent the host immune response and ensure parasitism success. Venom of the ISm strain of L. boulardi mainly targets the main hemocyte type...

Most species in the order Hymenoptera are parasitoids that lay eggs and develop in or on the body of arthropod hosts. Several factors contribute to successful parasitism including venoms that wasps inject into hosts when ovipositing. Here, we review the composition, function and diversity of parasitoid venoms with emphasis on studies of wasps...

Host-parasitoid interactions are among the most studied interactions between invertebrates because of their fundamental interest – the evolution of original traits in parasitoids – and applied, parasitoids being widely used in biological control. Immunity, and in particular cellular immunity, is central in these interactions, the host...

Legumes can meet their nitrogen requirements through root nodule symbiosis, which could also trigger plant systemic resistance against pests. The pea aphid , a legume pest, can harbour different facultative symbionts (FS) influencing various traits of their hosts. It is therefore worth determining if and how the symbionts of the plant and the...

The Drosophila endoparasitoid wasps Leptopilina boulardi and L. heterotoma (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) are proovigenic species, i.e., females contain their lifetime number of mature eggs at emergence. They are therefore able to immediately parasitize many hosts when present. In response to parasitoid oviposition, the larval host D. melanogaster...