Evolutionary genetics of insect innate immunity
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Evolutionary genetics of insect innate immunity
Patterns of evolution in immune defense genes help to understand the evolutionary dynamics between hosts and pathogens. Multiple insect genomes have been sequenced, with many of them having annotated immune genes, which paves the way for a comparative genomic analysis of insect immunity. In this review, I summarize the current state of comparative and evolutionary genomics of insect innate immu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Briefings in Functional Genomics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2041-2649,2041-2657
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elv002