Innate immune responses to gut microbiota differ between oceanic and freshwater threespine stickleback populations

• Main Authors: Kathryn Milligan-Myhre (Author), Clayton M. Small (Author), Erika K. Mittge (Author), Meghna Agarwal (Author), Mark Currey (Author), William A. Cresko (Author), Karen Guillemin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Company of Biologists, 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Animal hosts must co-exist with beneficial microbes while simultaneously being able to mount rapid, non-specific, innate immune responses to pathogenic microbes. How this balance is achieved is not fully understood, and disruption of this relationship can lead to disease. Excessive inflammatory resp...