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. 2013 Feb;9(2):e1003110.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003110. Epub 2013 Feb 7.

Fifty shades of immune defense

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Fifty shades of immune defense

Michael F Criscitiello et al. PLoS Pathog. 2013 Feb.
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Figure 1. Shades of immunity.
All life has innate immune mechanisms and jawed vertebrates have the IgSF lymphocyte receptor–based adaptive system as well. Different immune mechanisms with adaptive properties are being discovered in species originally considered to only possess innate immunity.

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