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Diversity of animal immune receptors and the origins of recognition complexity in the deuterostomes.
Developmental and comparative immunology - 1 Mar 2015
Buckley Katherine M, Rast Jonathan P
Abstract excerpt
Invertebrate animals are characterized by extraordinary diversity in terms of body plan, life history and life span. The past impression that invertebrate immune responses are controlled by relatively simple innate systems is increasingly contradicted by genomic analyses that reveal significant evolutionary novelty and complexity. One accessible measure of this complexity is the multiplicity of genes encoding...
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