A large repertoire of parasite epitopes matched by a large repertoire of host immune receptors in an invertebrate host/parasite model.

• Main Authors: Yves Moné (Author), Benjamin Gourbal (Author), David Duval (Author), Louis Du Pasquier (Author), Sylvie Kieffer-Jaquinod (Author), Guillaume Mitta (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

For many decades, invertebrate immunity was believed to be non-adaptive, poorly specific, relying exclusively on sometimes multiple but germ-line encoded innate receptors and effectors. But recent studies performed in different invertebrate species have shaken this paradigm by providing evidence for...