| The dorsoventral regulatory gene cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus controls the potent antifungal response in Drosophila adults B Lemaitre, E Nicolas, L Michaut, JM Reichhart, JA Hoffmann Cell 86 (6), 973-983, 1996 | 4550 | 1996 |
| The Host Defense of Drosophila melanogaster B Lemaitre, J Hoffmann Annu. Rev. Immunol. 25, 697-743, 2007 | 2398 | 2007 |
| Comparative genomics of the eukaryotes GM Rubin, MD Yandell, JR Wortman, GL Gabor, CR Nelson, IK Hariharan, ... Science 287 (5461), 2204-2215, 2000 | 1845 | 2000 |
| Drosophila host defense: differential induction of antimicrobial peptide genes after infection by various classes of microorganisms B Lemaitre, JM Reichhart, JA Hoffmann Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94 (26), 14614-14619, 1997 | 984 | 1997 |
| Genome-wide analysis of the Drosophila immune response by using oligonucleotide microarrays E De Gregorio, PT Spellman, GM Rubin, B Lemaitre Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (22), 12590-12595, 2001 | 734 | 2001 |
| The Toll and Imd pathways are the major regulators of the immune response in Drosophila E De Gregorio, PT Spellman, P Tzou, GM Rubin, B Lemaitre The EMBO journal 21 (11), 2568-2579, 2002 | 685 | 2002 |
| Drosophila intestinal response to bacterial infection: activation of host defense and stem cell proliferation N Buchon, NA Broderick, M Poidevin, S Pradervand, B Lemaitre Cell host & microbe 5 (2), 200-211, 2009 | 581 | 2009 |
| A recessive mutation, immune deficiency (imd), defines two distinct control pathways in the Drosophila host defense B Lemaitre, E Kromer-Metzger, L Michaut, E Nicolas, M Meister, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92 (21), 9465-9469, 1995 | 569 | 1995 |
| Tissue-specific inducible expression of antimicrobial peptide genes in Drosophila surface epithelia P Tzou, S Ohresser, D Ferrandon, M Capovilla, JM Reichhart, B Lemaitre, ... Immunity 13 (5), 737-748, 2000 | 529 | 2000 |
| The Drosophila immune system detects bacteria through specific peptidoglycan recognition F Leulier, C Parquet, S Pili-Floury, JH Ryu, M Caroff, WJ Lee, ... Nature immunology 4 (5), 478, 2003 | 528 | 2003 |
| Invasive and indigenous microbiota impact intestinal stem cell activity through multiple pathways in Drosophila N Buchon, NA Broderick, S Chakrabarti, B Lemaitre Genes & development 23 (19), 2333-2344, 2009 | 494 | 2009 |
| Toll-like receptors—taking an evolutionary approach F Leulier, B Lemaitre Nature Reviews Genetics 9 (3), 165, 2008 | 433 | 2008 |
| The Drosophila caspase Dredd is required to resist Gram‐negative bacterial infection F Leulier, A Rodriguez, RS Khush, JM Abrams, B Lemaitre EMBO reports 1 (4), 353-358, 2000 | 397 | 2000 |
| How Drosophila combats microbial infection: a model to study innate immunity and host–pathogen interactions P Tzou, E De Gregorio, B Lemaitre Current opinion in microbiology 5 (1), 102-110, 2002 | 395 | 2002 |
| The Drosophila amidase PGRP-LB modulates the immune response to bacterial infection A Zaidman-Rémy, M Hervé, M Poidevin, S Pili-Floury, MS Kim, D Blanot, ... Immunity 24 (4), 463-473, 2006 | 382 | 2006 |
| A drosomycin–GFP reporter transgene reveals a local immune response in Drosophila that is not dependent on the Toll pathway D Ferrandon, AC Jung, MC Criqui, B Lemaitre, S Uttenweiler‐Joseph, ... The EMBO journal 17 (5), 1217-1227, 1998 | 371 | 1998 |
| Mutations in the Drosophila dTAK1 gene reveal a conserved function for MAPKKKs in the control of rel/NF-κB-dependent innate immune responses S Vidal, RS Khush, F Leulier, P Tzou, M Nakamura, B Lemaitre Genes & development 15 (15), 1900-1912, 2001 | 334 | 2001 |
| The phytopathogenic bacteria Erwinia carotovora infects Drosophila and activates an immune response A Basset, RS Khush, A Braun, L Gardan, F Boccard, JA Hoffmann, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97 (7), 3376-3381, 2000 | 330 | 2000 |
| An immune-responsive Serpin regulates the melanization cascade in Drosophila E De Gregorio, SJ Han, WJ Lee, MJ Baek, T Osaki, SI Kawabata, BL Lee, ... Developmental cell 3 (4), 581-592, 2002 | 327 | 2002 |
| Drosophila host defense after oral infection by an entomopathogenic Pseudomonas species N Vodovar, M Vinals, P Liehl, A Basset, J Degrouard, P Spellman, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (32), 11414-11419, 2005 | 322 | 2005 |