DROSOPHILA CELLULAR-IMMUNITY AGAINST PARASITOIDS

Insect host-parasite interrelations involve co-adaptations of consider able complexity. Against endoparasites, immune competent insect hosts initiate a hemocyte-mediated response that quickly destroys the intrud ers and envelops them in multilayered, melanotic capsules. In this rev iew, Yves Carton and Anthony Nappi focus on recent studies of the cyto logical, biochemical and genetic mechanisms involved in the cellular i mmune response of Drosophila against wasp parasitoids.