Claude Wicker

Insect immunity: isolation from immune blood of the dipteran Phormia terranovae of two insect antibacterial peptides with sequence homology to rabbit lung macrophage bactericidal peptides.

Jean Lambert, Elisabeth Keppi, J.L. Dimarcq et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1989 · 331 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Immunology +16

Insect immunity. Characterization of a Drosophila cDNA encoding a novel member of the diptericin family of immune peptides.

Claude Wicker, Jean‐Marc Reichhart, D. Hoffmann et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1990 · 181 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Immunology +13

Differential vitamin and choline requirements of symbiotic and aposymbiotic s. oryzae (coleoptera: curculionidae)

Claude Wicker · Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Physiology · 1983 · 67 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Entomology +16

Development responses of symbiotic and aposymbiotic weevils Sitophilus oryzae L. (Coleoptera, curculionidae) to a diet supplemented with aromatic amino acids

Claude Wicker, P. Nardon · Journal of Insect Physiology · 1982 · 42 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Nutritional Sciences +16

Mode of action of diptericin A, a bactericidal peptide induced in the hemolymph of <i>Phormia terranovae</i> larvae

Elisabeth Keppi, Anthony P. Pugsley, Jean Lambert et al. · Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology · 1989 · 34 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Zoology +15