Innate Immunity in Fruit Flies: A Textbook Example of Genomic Recycling
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- 17 August 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 2 (8) , e276-E276
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020276
Abstract
Drosophila serve as a wonderful model for studying aspects of innate immunity, i.e. the physical, cellular, and molecular features that provide the first lines of defense against infections in flies and man.Keywords
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