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A hemocyte-specific integrin required for hemocytic encapsulation in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta by Levin, David M., Breuer, Lisha N., Zhuang, Shufei, Anderson, Sheri A., Nardi, James B., Kanost, Michael R.

“…Upon encountering an object recognized as foreign, insect hemocytes aggregate in multiple layers on the surfaces of the object in a process known as…”
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Communities of microbes that inhabit the changing hindgut landscape of a subsocial beetle by Nardi, James B., Bee, Charles Mark, Miller, Lou Ann, Nguyen, Nhu H., Suh, Sung-Oui, Blackwell, Meredith

“…Microbes that have adopted endosymbiotic life styles not only have evolved to live in specialized habitats within living organisms, but the living habitats…”
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Clustering of adhesion receptors following exposure of insect blood cells to foreign surfaces by Nardi, James B., Zhuang, Shufei, Pilas, Barbara, Mark Bee, Charles, Kanost, Michael R.

“…Cell-mediated immune responses of insects involve interactions of two main classes of blood cells (hemocytes) known as granular cells and plasmatocytes. In…”
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Expression of lacunin, a large multidomain extracellular matrix protein, accompanies morphogenesis of epithelial monolayers in Manduca sexta by Nardi, James B., Martos, Rebecca, Walden, Kimberly K.O., Lampe, David J., Robertson, Hugh M.

“…Morphogenesis is a complex process operating at several levels of organization—organism, tissues, cells, and molecules. Complex interactions occur between and…”
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Specialization of midgut cells for synthesis of male isoprenoid pheromone components in two scolytid beetles, Dendroctonus jeffreyi and Ips pini by Nardi, J.B., Young, A.Gilg, Ujhelyi, E., Tittiger, C., Lehane, M.J., Blomquist, G.J.

“…Endodermal or midgut cells have only recently been recognized as the site of pheromone synthesis in bark beetles. Midgut cells are not only specialized for…”
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Neuroglian is expressed on cells destined to form the prothoracic glands of Manduca embryos as they segregate from surrounding cells and rearrange during morphogenesis by Chen, C.L, Lampe, D.J, Robertson, H.M, Nardi, J.B

“…A cell surface protein (3B11) is differentially expressed in the embryonic labial segment of Manduca as two circular monolayers of epithelial cells invaginate…”
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Neuronal pathfinding in developing wings of the moth Manduca sexta by Nardi, James B.

“…The neural pattern of the moth wing is a simple two-dimensional network nestled between the two epithelial monolayers that form the upper and lower surfaces of…”
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Expression of a surface epitope on cells that link branches in the tracheal network of Manduca sexta by Nardi, J B

“…A monoclonal antibody (MAb 2F5) to a cell surface epitope labels a small subpopulation of tracheal epithelial cells in each thoracic and abdominal segment of…”
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Fine structure of cells specialized for secretion of aggregation pheromone in a nitidulid beetle Carpophilus freemani (coleoptera: Nitidulidae) by Nardi, J.B., Dowd, P.F., Bartelt, R.J.

“…The cells that secrete the aggregation pheromone of the male nitidulid beetle Carpophilus freemani are exceptionally large and lie within the body cavity…”
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Programmed cell death in the wing of Orgyia leucostigma (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) by Nardi, J B, Godfrey, G L, Bergstrom, R A

“…Programmed cell death is an integral and ubiquitous phenomenon of development that is responsible for the reduction of wing size in female moths of Orgyia…”
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Induction of invagination in insect epithelium: paradigm for embryonic invagination by Nardi, James B.

“…The proposal that adhesive disparities between inpocketing populations of cells and surrounding epithelia drive epithelial invagination was tested in grafting…”
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Formation of scale spacing patterns in a moth wing by Nardi, J.B, Magee-Adams, S.M

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Control of cuticle formation by wing imaginal discs in vitro by Nardi, James B., Willis, Judith H.

“…Wing discs from late final-instar Ephestia larvae form only pupal cuticle when immediately implanted into pupae which subsequently undergo metamorphosis…”
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Cellular events within peripodial epithelia that accompany evagination of Manduca wing discs: Conversion of cuboidal epithelia to columnar epithelia by Nardi, James B., Norby, Shong-Wan, Magee-Adams, Sheila M.

“…In the wing disc of Manduca, a sheet of peripodial epithelium completely covers the apical surface of another epithelium destined to form the wing blade. The…”
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Polarity and gradients in lepidopteran wing epidermis. II. The differential adhesiveness model: gradient of a non diffusible cell surface parameter by Nardi, J.B, Kafatos, F.C

“…For explaining the Manduca wing gradient (Nardi & Kafatos, 1976) a model which postulates a proximo-distal gradient in cellular adhesiveness is considered. The…”
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Polarity and gradients in lepidopteran wing epidermis. I. Changes in graft polarity, form, and cell density accompanying transpositions and reorientations by Nardi, J.B, Kafatos, F.C

“…Lepidopteran wing epidermis has certain advantages for studying the spatial organization of cell populations: ease of accessibility and manipulation, large…”
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