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Multiple genes affect sensitivity of Caenorhabditis elegans to the bacterial pathogen Microbacterium nematophilum.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2005
Gravato-Nobre Maria J, Nicholas Hannah R, Nijland Reindert, O'Rourke Delia, Whittington Deborah E, Yook Karen J, Hodgkin Jonathan
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Interactions with bacteria play a major role in immune responses, ecology, and evolution of all animals, but they have been neglected until recently in the case of C. elegans. We report a genetic investigation of the interaction of C. elegans with the nematode-specific pathogen Microbacterium nem...
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