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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Main Authors: Chris G C Jacobs, Herman P Spaink, Maurijn van der Zee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2014-12-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/04111