The extraembryonic serosa is a frontier epithelium providing the insect egg with a full-range innate immune response
Drosophila larvae and adults possess a potent innate immune response, but the response of Drosophila eggs is poor. In contrast to Drosophila, eggs of the beetle Tribolium are protected by a serosa, an extraembryonic epithelium that is present in all insects except higher flies. In this study, we tes...
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| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2014-12-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/04111 |