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Antiplasmodial Activity Is an Ancient and Conserved Feature of Tick Defensins
Ancestral sequence reconstruction has been widely used to test evolution-based hypotheses. The genome of the European tick vector, Ixodes ricinus, encodes for defensin peptides with diverse antimicrobial activities against distantly related pathogens. These pathogens include fungi, Gram-negative, an...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5075766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822206 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01682 |