Antiviral adaptive immunity and tolerance in the mosquito Aedes aegyti
Michel Tassetto, Mark Kunitomi, Zachary J. Whitfield, Patrick Dolan, Irma Sánchez-Vargas, Isabel Ribiero, Taotao Chen, Ken E. Olson, Raul Andino
The paper characterizes an antiviral immunity pathway in mosquitoes that uses endogenous viral elements for long-term protection and self-nonself discrimination.
bioRxiv · Oct 9, 2018 · PreprintImmunology