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. 2017 Jan 12:6:e24111.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.24111.

Protection from within

Florent Masson  1 , Bruno Lemaitre  1
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Protection from within

Florent Masson et al. Elife. .

Abstract

The development of the tsetse fly immune system relies on a cue from an endosymbiotic bacterium called Wigglesworthia.

Keywords: D. melanogaster; crystal cell; developmental biology; hematopoiesis; immunology; odorant binding protein; stem cells; symbiont; symbiosis; tsetse fly.

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The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

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