Innate immune responses to gut microbiota differ between oceanic and freshwater threespine stickleback populations
Animal hosts must co-exist with beneficial microbes while simultaneously being able to mount rapid, non-specific, innate immune responses to pathogenic microbes. How this balance is achieved is not fully understood, and disruption of this relationship can lead to disease. Excessive inflammatory resp...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Company of Biologists
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Disease Models & Mechanisms |
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| Online Access: | http://dmm.biologists.org/content/9/2/187 |