Redefining the Immune System as a Social Interface for Cooperative Processes

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Muraille, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFECTION;

EID: 84875981588     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003203     Document Type: Article

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