Molecular evolution of the three short PGRPs of the malaria vectors <it>An</it>opheles <it>gambiae </it>and <it>Anopheles arabiensis </it>in East Africa
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Immune responses to parasites, which start with pathogen recognition, play a decisive role in the control of the infection in mosquitoes. Peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) are an important family of pattern recognition recep...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/9 |