Pioneering immunology: Insect style

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-14

  Chambers, Moria C ^a   Schneider, David S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; IMMUNE PLASTICITY; IMMUNE PRIMING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INSECT; METABOLISM; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECTS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 84857037670     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: 18790372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2011.11.003     Document Type: Review

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