Evolutionary BiologyScience AdvancesPeer-reviewed
Marsupial immune protection is shaped by enhancer sharing and gene cluster duplication of cathelicidin antimicrobial peptides
Jongbeom Park, Wenfan Ke, Aellah M. Kaage…·Ricardo Mallarino
The paper investigates how marsupial neonates use cathelicidin antimicrobial peptides for immune protection through genomic clustering and enhancer sharing, showing their effectiveness in a sepsis model.