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The raspberry Gene Is Involved in the Regulation of the Cellular Immune Response in Drosophila melanogaster.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Kari Beáta, Csordás Gábor, Honti Viktor, Cinege Gyöngyi, Williams Michael J, Andó István, Kurucz Éva
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila is an extremely useful model organism for understanding how innate immune mechanisms defend against microbes and parasitoids. Large foreign objects trigger a potent cellular immune response in Drosophila larva. In the case of endoparasitoid wasp eggs, this response includes hemocyte proliferation, lamellocyte differentiation and eventual encapsulation of the egg. The encapsulation reaction involves the...
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