Worms secrete deadly protein mixtures to kill insects that destroy crops.

Ne worms, as tiny worms, often fall into neglected corners in the animal kingdom.
although many of the worms are parasitic, meaning they live in other organisms, they can also help control human diseases and kill crop-destroying insects.
"good qualities" of the worm have attracted the attention of Adler Dillman, an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside.
and several of his co-authors recently published a paper in PLOS Pathogens, saying that worms secrete deadly protein mixtures to kill many crop-destroying insects.
the findings overturn a long-held view that it is a specialized bacteria that work with veils to kill pests.
"It's like real science fiction.
tiny nebules crawl into the parasite, excrete toxic bacteria, spit out venom, and turn the host into an 'insect milkshake,'" Dillman said.
" worm has adapted to almost all ecosystems, including oceans, lakes, soils, polar, tropical and all altitudes.
they are round, but there are no sections like the dragonfly.
is generally 0.1 to 2.5 mm long, manifested in more than 80% of the Earth's animals.
Dillman's team focused its research on one of the types of veles, the Streat worm, which has been extensively studied and is known to kill more than 250 species of pests that attack plants such as peaches, tomatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, oranges and pine trees.
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are a class of insect parasites known as insect pathogens.
are different from other insect parasites because they kill their hosts quickly in a day or two, and "intersect" with bacteria to advance their parasites.
these veins were born, stopped evolving, and restarted once infected with the host insect.
little has been known about the early stages of the parasite state of the worm, and little is known about how they open up the parasitic stages and "re-births" of the life cycle.
Dillman's team helped solve the mystery.
described in their paper that the researchers used a new method to study the worm when it is outside its parasitic host insect, a common challenge in studying parasites.
the worm was exposed to insect tissue in the lab neck bottle, the researchers collected toxic proteins from the worm.
found that protein mixtures are highly toxic to a variety of insect species, such as adult fruit flies, which are commonly used in scientific experiments.
addition, the researchers used RNA sequencing techniques to compare the expression of the worm gene in the insect host with the expression of the worm gene exposed to the tissue of the neck bottle insect.
they found that gene expression spectrums were similar and demonstrated the effectiveness of models developed for the work of worms outside the host insect.
eventually identified 472 proteins that might be involved in parasitic.
these proteins will serve as a basis for future agricultural and medical applications.
agriculture, researchers hope to find new insecticidal compounds that could be used to control pests around the world.
human medicine, ventilation has recently been shown to help control autoimmune diseases such as celiac disease, irritability syndrome, Crohn's disease, etc.
their findings are also closely related to human parasites such as aphids, which infect 100 million people worldwide.
future, Dillman and his co-ators will use better approaches involving worm molecules to fight these diseases.
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