Innate immunity in fruit flies: A textbook example of genomic recycling

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Govind, Shubha ^a   Nehm, Ross H ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HEMATOPOIESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; NF-KAPPA B; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 19344365944     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020276     Document Type: Review

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