For the last 20 years, the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella has gathered widespread interest in the scientific community as a model host. During this time, there has been an increase in the number of studies utilizing G. mellonella as an alternative model host. These studies have provided important ‘proof of concept’ findings, leading to important advances on health sciences. Recently, the entire genome of G. mellonella was sequenced (Lange et al. 2018) raising further insights and perspectives for future investigations. Aimed at giving an updated overview, the thematic issue on the G. mellonella as experimental model gathers a collection of research articles and reviews by renowned research groups from Australia, Brazil, India, Ireland, Poland, Spanish, United Kingdom and USA.

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Galleria mellonella 实验模型：进展和未来方向

在过去的 20 年里，大蜡蛾Galleria mellonella作为模范宿主引起了科学界的广泛兴趣。在此期间，使用G. mellonella作为替代模型宿主的研究数量有所增加。这些研究提供了重要的“概念证明”发现，导致了健康科学的重要进展。最近，对G. mellonella的整个基因组进行了测序（Lange等人，2018 年），为未来的研究提供了进一步的见解和前景。旨在提供更新的概述，关于G. mellonella的专题 作为实验模型，收集了来自澳大利亚、巴西、印度、爱尔兰、波兰、西班牙、英国和美国的著名研究小组的研究文章和评论。