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Recognition and elimination of diversified pathogens in insect defense systems.
Molecular diversity - 1 Nov 2006
Kurata Shoichiro
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The elimination of infectious non-self by the host defense systems of multicellular organisms requires a variety of recognition and effector molecules. The diversity is generated in somatic cells or encoded in the germ-line. In adaptive immunity in jawed vertebrates, the diversity of immunoglobul...
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