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Alternative mechanisms of immune receptor diversity.
Current opinion in immunology - 1 Oct 2007
Litman Gary W, Dishaw Larry J, Cannon John P, Haire Robert N, Rast Jonathan P
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Our views of both innate and adaptive immunity have been significantly modified by recent studies of immune receptors and immunity in protostomes, invertebrate deuterostomes, and jawless vertebrates. Extraordinary variation in the means whereby organisms recognize pathogens has been revealed by a series of recent findings, including: novel forms of familiar immune receptors, high genetic polymorphism for new...
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