Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection
A. Leitao, R. Arunkumar, J. P. Day, E. M. Geldman, F. M. Jiggins
The paper shows that Drosophila populations evolved resistance to parasitism by making immune-inducible genes constitutively active through the pre-differentiation of immune cells.
eLife · Dec 24, 2020Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology