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Published Online January 24, 2008
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1154209

Perspectives

Submitted on September 24, 2007
Accepted on January 17, 2008

The Right Resident Bugs

Neal Silverman 1* and Nicholas Paquette 1

1 Division of Infectious Disease, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Neal Silverman , E-mail: neal.silverman{at}umassmed.edu

A link between transcription factors and bacteria in the fly gut opens the door to analyses of host immunity to intestinal resident and pathogenic microbes.


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