1. Editorial: Innate Immunity in Early Diverging Metazoans.
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Traylor-Knowles, Nikki, Browne, William E., Mydlarz, Laura D., Palmer, Caroline V., and Rosental, Benyamin
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NATURAL immunity ,LIFE history theory ,IMMUNE system ,COLONIES (Biology) ,EUKARYOTES ,CELLULAR immunity - Abstract
Snyder et al. used fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and fluorescence microscopy to functionally identify and characterize phagocytes from the scleractinian coral, I Pocillopora damicornis i , and the actiniarian sea anemone, I Nematostella vectensis i . Keywords: invertebrate; innate immunity; metazoa; Cnidaria; Porifera EN invertebrate innate immunity metazoa Cnidaria Porifera 1 3 3 02/02/22 20220131 NES 220131 This Research Topic on innate immunity was motivated by the need to expand our knowledge of innate immunity and general immune responses in early diverging metazoans, such as cnidarians, placozoans, sponges, and ctenophores (Figure 1). This theme of complexity in immune response compliments other papers in the series looking at immunity from an ecological perspective in co-infection of octocorals by Tracy et al., down to discrete cellular activity level in scleractinian corals and anemones by Snyder et al. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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