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Symbiotic bacteria, immune-like sentinel cells, and the response to pathogens in a social amoeba

Some endosymbionts living within a host must modulate their hosts' immune systems in order to infect and persist. We studied the effect of a bacterial endosymbiont on a facultatively multicellular social amoeba host. Aggregates of the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum contain a subpopulation of s...

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Autores principales: Scott, Trey J., Larsen, Tyler J., Brock, Debra A., Uhm, So Yeon Stacey, Queller, David C., Strassmann, Joan E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37593719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230727