The interplay between intestinal bacteria and host metabolism in health and disease: lessons from Drosophila melanogaster
All higher organisms negotiate a truce with their commensal microbes and battle pathogenic microbes on a daily basis. Much attention has been given to the role of the innate immune system in controlling intestinal microbes and to the strategies used by intestinal microbes to overcome the host immune...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Company of Biologists
2016-03-01
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Series: | Disease Models & Mechanisms |
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Online Access: | http://dmm.biologists.org/content/9/3/271 |