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Fascinating I wonder what implications this would have for the crustacean immune system
by selimthegrim 3y ago
Fascinating I wonder what implications this would have for the crustacean immune system
- a_bonobo 3y agoThere are some beautiful examples around immune systems!! Especially plants have benefited from 'domesticating' transposons to shuffle their disease resistance genes around for increased diversity -> increased chance of defense. https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-017-1341-9 https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13... There are some wonderful specific examples where a plant 'stole' one specific TE and uses it to generate diversity on the fly!