... the production of AMPs by the fat body, an insect immune-response tissue, and occasionally by hemocytes and other tissues [68-71]. These peptides are secreted into the hemolymph, where they exhibit a broad ... and conducted the SSH study, and CVM constructed the aphid gut libraries. YR conducted the HPLC study. The manuscript was prepared by NMG, SMB, CA, TG and YRwith input from MDV, BA, AN, AV and ... lysozymes. The a nalysis further verified that the genome also lacks genes for g-type, plant-type, and phage-type lysozymes. Only three genes for i-typehomologs were detected in the genome (Figure...