title: An adaptive immune response in Drosophila?
abstract: The ability to mount an adaptive immune response is thought to be an attribute restricted to vertebrates. A new study conducted in Drosophila demonstrates that invertebrate immunity can adapt to an immune challenge and mount a specific immune response.
authors.affiliation: Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06519-1418, USA. herve.agaisse@yale.edu
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Agaisse
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000276:immunology*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D007110:Immunity, Active; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D018448:Models, Immunological
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins