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

• Päätekijät: Yves Moné (Tekijä), Benjamin Gourbal (Tekijä), David Duval (Tekijä), Louis Du Pasquier (Tekijä), Sylvie Kieffer-Jaquinod (Tekijä), Guillaume Mitta (Tekijä)
• Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
• Julkaistu: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Aiheet: article
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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...