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Prakash A., Fenner F., Shit B., Salminen T.S., Monteith K.M., Khan I. and Vale P.F. 2024: The immune regulation and epidemiological consequences of immune priming in Drosophila. PLoS Pathogens 20(6): e1012308. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012308
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Terzioglu, M., Veeroja, K., Montonen, T., Ihalainen, T.O., Salminen, T.S., Benit, P., Rustin, P., Chang, Y-T., Nagai, T., Jacobs, H.T. 2023: Mitochondrial temperature homeostasis resists external metabolic stresses. doi: 10.7554/eLife.89232.2
Valanne, S., Vesala, L., Maasdorp, M., Salminen T.S., and Rämet, M. 2022: The Drosophila Toll pathway in innate immunity – from the core pathway towards effector functions. J Immunol 2022; 209:1817-1825; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2200476
Anderson L., Camus M.F., Monteith K.M., Salminen T.S. and Vale P.F. 2022: Variation in mitochondrial DNA affects locomotor activity and sleep in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity, 129, pages 225–232 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-022-00554-w
Salminen T.S. & Vale, P.F. 2020: Drosophila as a model system to investigate the effects of mitochondrial variation on innate immunity. Front. Immunol. 11:521.doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00521
Valanne, S., Järvelä-Stölting, M., Harjula, S-K. E., Myllymäki, H., Salminen, T.S. & Rämet, M. 2020: Osa-containing Brahma complex regulates innate immunity and metabolism in Drosophila. J. Immunol. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1900571
Salminen, T.S., Cannino, G., Oliveira, M.T., Lillsunde, P., Jacobs, H.T., Kaguni, L.S. 2019: Lethal interaction of nuclear and mitochondrial genotypes in Drosophila melanogaster. G3: GENES, GENOMES, GENETICS 9 (7): 2225-2234: doi: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400315
Valanne, S*., Salminen, T.S.*, Järvelä-Stölting, M., Vesala, L. & Rämet, M. 2019: Correction: Immune-inducible non-coding RNA molecule lincRNA-IBIN connects immunity and metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Pathog 15(1): e1007504. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008088 *Shared first authorship
Salminen, T.S., Oliveira, M.T., Cannino, G., Lillsunde, P., Jacobs, H.T. & Kaguni, L.S. 2017: Mitochondrial genotype modulates mtDNA copy number and organismal phenotype in Drosophila. Mitochondrion 34: 75-83.
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