Divergent Immune Priming Responses across Flour Beetle 1 Life Stages and Populations
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Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum.
Immune specificity is the degree to which a host's immune system discriminates among various pathogens or antigenic variants. Vertebrate immune memory is highly specific due to antibody responses. On the other hand, some invertebrates show immune priming, i.e. improved survival after secondary exposure to a previously encountered pathogen. Until now, specificity of priming has only been demonst...
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