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Traces of an ancient immune system – how an injured arthropod survived 465 million years ago

This report of a severely injured trilobite from the Middle Ordovician (~465 Ma) accords with a number of similar observations of healed lesions observed in trilobites. The uniqueness of the specimen described here is that the character of the repair-mechanisms is reflected by the secondarily built...

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Autores principales: Schoenemann, Brigitte, Clarkson, Euan N. K., Høyberget, Magne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28074858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep40330