A depauperate immune repertoire precedes evolution of sociality in bees

BACKGROUND: Sociality has many rewards, but can also be dangerous, as high population density and low genetic diversity, common in social insects, is ideal for parasite transmission. Despite this risk, honeybees and other sequenced social insects have far fewer canonical immune genes relative to sol...

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Autores principales: Barribeau, Seth M, Sadd, Ben M, du Plessis, Louis, Brown, Mark JF, Buechel, Severine D, Cappelle, Kaat, Carolan, James C, Christiaens, Olivier, Colgan, Thomas J, Erler, Silvio, Evans, Jay, Helbing, Sophie, Karaus, Elke, Lattorff, H Michael G, Marxer, Monika, Meeus, Ivan, Näpflin, Kathrin, Niu, Jinzhi, Schmid-Hempel, Regula, Smagghe, Guy, Waterhouse, Robert M, Yu, Na, Zdobnov, Evgeny M, Schmid-Hempel, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25908406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0628-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25908406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0628-y

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