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Drosophilosophical: Re-thinking Adaptive Immunity in the Fly

West, Cara C.
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Silverman, Neal
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West, Cara C.
Silverman, Neal
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Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine
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2017-04-06
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Immunity
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.032
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For decades, flies have been a model for innate immunity. In this issue of Cell, Tassetto et al. describe a mechanism for antiviral RNAi spreading that parallels mammalian adaptive immunity through reverse-transcribed vDNA circles and the systemic dissemination of small-RNA-containing exosomes.

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Cell. 2017 Apr 6;169(2):188-190. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.032. Link to article on publisher's site

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10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.032
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