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Originally published in Science Express on 24 January 2008
Science 8 February 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5864, pp. 734 - 735
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154209
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IMMUNOLOGY:
The Right Resident Bugs

Neal Silverman and Nicholas Paquette

A link between a transcription factor and control of immune responses in the fly gut opens the door to analyses of host-microbe mutalism.

The authors are in the Division of Infectious Disease, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. E-mail: neal.silverman{at}umassmed.edu

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