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Adaptive Immunity

Care for the community

Nature volume 445, page 153 (2007)Cite this article

A memory-based immune system may have evolved in vertebrates because of the need to recognize and manage complex communities of beneficial microbes.

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    Margaret McFall-Ngai

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