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Self-harm caused by an insect's innate immunity

It has been a long-held assumption that the innate immune system of insects causes self-harm when used to combat an immune insult. We show empirically that this assumption is correct. Invertebrate innate immunity relies heavily on effector systems which, on activation, produce cytotoxins that kill p...

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Hauptverfasser: Sadd, Ben M, Siva-Jothy, Michael T
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2006
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1634900/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16959651
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3574
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