Immunity, suicide or both? Ecological determinants for the combined evolution of anti-pathogen defense systems

BACKGROUND: Parasite-host arms race is one of the key factors in the evolution of life. Most cellular life forms, in particular prokaryotes, possess diverse forms of defense against pathogens including innate immunity, adaptive immunity and programmed cell death (altruistic suicide). Coevolution of...

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Autores principales: Iranzo, Jaime, Lobkovsky, Alexander E, Wolf, Yuri I, Koonin, Eugene V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25881094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0324-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25881094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0324-2

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