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The potential for adaptive maintenance of diversity in insect antimicrobial peptides

Genes involved in immune defence are among the fastest evolving in the genomes of many species. Interestingly, however, genes encoding antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have shown little evidence for adaptive divergence in arthropods, despite the centrality of these peptides in direct killing of microbi...

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Autores principales: Unckless, Robert L., Lazzaro, Brian P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4874389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27160594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0291