title: Host defence: getting by with a little help from our friends.
abstract: Insects deploy cellular and humoral defences to defend themselves against pathogens and parasites. The recent discovery that fly defences are commonly supplemented by inherited protective microbes suggests that symbiont-mediated protection is common. Resistance evolution may have a more complex dynamic than previously described.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, UK. g.hurst@liv.ac.uk
authors.forename: Gregory D D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Hurst
authors.forename: Kate J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Hutchence
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004330:Drosophila / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D010271:Parasites; D012919:Social Behavior; D013559:Symbiosis