The Origin of Mucosal Immunity: Lessons from the Holobiont <italic toggle="yes">Hydra</italic>
ABSTRACT Historically, mucosal immunity—i.e., the portion of the immune system that protects an organism’s various mucous membranes from invasion by potentially pathogenic microbes—has been studied in single-cell epithelia in the gastrointestinal and upper respiratory tracts of vertebrates. Phylogen...
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American Society for Microbiology
2016
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/c67de1ae42614a26b30aa79039f891b2 |
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