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Massively parallel amplicon sequencing reveals isotype-specific variability of antimicrobial peptide transcripts in Mytilus galloprovincialis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Rosani Umberto, Varotto Laura, Rossi Alberta, Roch Philippe, Novoa Beatriz, Figueras Antonio, Pallavicini Alberto, Venier Paola
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Effective innate responses against potential pathogens are essential in the living world and possibly contributed to the evolutionary success of invertebrates. Taken together, antimicrobial peptide (AMP) precursors of defensin, mytilin, myticin and mytimycin can represent about 40% of the hemocyte transcriptome in mussels injected with viral-like and bacterial preparations, and unique profiles of...
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