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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Induces Immune Enhancing and Shapes Gut Microbiota in Social Wasps
15 Oct 2019
Abstract excerpt
Trained immunity is the enhanced response of the innate immune system to a secondary infection after an initial encounter with a microorganism. This non-specific response to reinfection is a primitive form of adaptation that has been shown to be conserved from plants to mammals. Insects lack an acquired immune component and rely solely on an innate one and they have expanded it upon traits of plasticity and...
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